Conscience Quotes

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.

What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

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.

I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

The conscience of the dying belies their life.

Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.