Conscience Quotes

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.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

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.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

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.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

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.

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.

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.

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

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.

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