Conscience Quotes

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

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.

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.

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

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.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

I have a clear conscience.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.