Conscience Quotes

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.

Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Conscience is God present in man.

It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.

A clear conscience is a sure card.

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.