Conscience Quotes
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The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can be inflicted on our national conscience.
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Conscience makes egotists of us all.
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The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.
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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
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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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There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.
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Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.
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There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
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Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of Good and Evill. For a man's Conscience and his Judgement are the same thing, and as the Judgement, so also the Conscience may be erroneous.
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Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
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My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.
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A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.
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That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.
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I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.
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The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
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When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience of the upright, to become resigned to it is wicked. Although the evil flaunts itself before our eyes, and no remedy is in sight, we must go and seek a remedy. In the creation of the God of Justice, evil can be but a transitory state.
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The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.
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Major, I do not know why God does the things He does, but I believe you have the same duty to God as you have always had: to follow the right path, to live your life with a clear conscience.
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Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.
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Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.
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In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.
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Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
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Conscience is a man's compass.
