Conscience Quotes
-
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.
-
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.
-
A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.
-
I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .
-
Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.
-
A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience.
-
I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'.
-
At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.
-
A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.
-
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.
-
Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not be haunted as it is by a deep sense of guilt for what it has done to the Negro - guilt for patronizing him, degrading him, brutalizing him, depersonalizing him, thingifying him; guilt for lying to itself. This is the source of the schizophrenia that the South will suffer until it goes through its crisis of conscience.
-
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.
-
What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience.
-
Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall.
-
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
-
The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.
-
It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience.
-
I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.
-
Live with honor and follow your conscience.
-
A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one and only reality. In such cases we have a sense in which the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be performer and observer of the same show. Presumably he introcepts or incorporates the standards he attempts to maintain in the presence of others so that even in their absence his conscience requires him to act in a socially proper way.
-
Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end.
-
With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution....This is the music everyone who has ears should hear.
-
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
-
No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.
