Conscience Quotes

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. '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.

Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

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.

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

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.