Conscience Quotes
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When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that makes people insensitive. It dulls the conscience. It strengthens the forces of reaction, and it brings into being bitterness and hatred and violence.
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I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
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Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.
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Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.
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By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself.
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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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There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.
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Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification.
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Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.
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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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Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.
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There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.
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Public opinion is a second conscience.
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The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.
