Conscience Quotes
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Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.
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A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.
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And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.
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I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available.
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Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?
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There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.
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Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.
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On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
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Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.
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Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.
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Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
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Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.
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Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.
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Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end.
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Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.
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The heart and soul of loving yourself is integrity and the peace of conscience it inspires.
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You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.
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God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or another of the opposing influences that act upon us.
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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
