Conscience Quotes

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.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

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.

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.

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.

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

There wasn't a moment where I got into cars. It wasn't a conscience decision or something that came later, it was there since I was born. I just love it.

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

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.

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

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.

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.