Conscience Quotes

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

Go by your own conscience.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.