Conscience Quotes

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.

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.

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.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

I have no bad conscience.

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.

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!

A satellite has no conscience.

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.

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