Conscience Quotes
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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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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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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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The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.
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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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A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.
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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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Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.
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There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.
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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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Conscience makes egotists of us all.
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
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I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'.
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Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
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Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.
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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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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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More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.
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There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
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The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
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Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.
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My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.
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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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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.
