Consciences Quotes

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy.

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.

The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.