Conscience Quotes
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There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
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The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.
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A new world. A better world. A kingdom of conscience...a kingdom of heaven.
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Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.
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A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.
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Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.
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Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.
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If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
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The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.
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I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.
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Man's conscience is the oracle of God.
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Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is unconditional and inexorable. ... The lowly Nazarene taught us the doctrine of non-resistance, and so convinced was he of the soundness of that doctrine that he sealed his belief with death on the cross. ... When human law conflicts with Divine law, my duty is clear. Conscience, my infallible guide, impels me to tell you that prison, death, or both, are infinitely preferable to joining any branch of the Army.
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What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
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You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively badgering them on what you perceive to be their failures of conscience.
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Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.
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There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.
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Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.
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Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.
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The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea. Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.
