Conscience Quotes

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

I have a clear conscience.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.