Conscience Quotes

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.

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

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

Go by your own conscience.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

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

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.