Best 842 quotes in «conscience quotes» category

Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.

Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

Forget the laws. If the laws don't make sense, if they run contrary to your conscience, you have to disobey them.

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience

Freedom is a clear conscience.

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.

Good conscience is the most valuable asset of all!

He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

I am bound by the texts of the Bible, my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to act against my conscience.

I have no boss but my conscience.

I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

If you have reached the point where you're certain that person has no conscience, or is in it to win rather than to love you, then the very best thing you can do is to get away. That's a very hard lesson to learn, and, furthermore, it's not always possible.

I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.

I don't feel active, and that my public conscience is fully satisfied.

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

I have a clear conscience.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.

I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.

Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect his job.

I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.

It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience.

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.

It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.