Conscience Quotes

We were a country band with a social conscience.

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Conscience is a man's compass.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.