Conscience Quotes

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

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.

I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate.

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

'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.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

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.