Conscience Quotes
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Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.
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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.
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Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
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A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
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There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.
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It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.
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We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.
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The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.
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Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty 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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.
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Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good.
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Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
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I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes in our country's political history happened at the time I was growing up, so I was raised to be a part of those things and to participate and I will continue to do that as much as I can.
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The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.
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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand.
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My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men do not disturb me. I am acting according to a clear conscience, and am doing hurt to no man. For my conduct, I will answer to my maker.
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Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, is helping children connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.
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What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.
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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.
