Conscience Quotes

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.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

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

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?

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.

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

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.

Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

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.