Conscience Quotes
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A man's vanity tells him what is honour; a man's conscience what is justice. (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Let his tormentor conscience find him out. (Quote by - John Milton)
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. (Quote by - Henry James)
Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death! (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
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 (Quote by - Michael Novak)
Success comes to those who become success conscience. Failure comes to those who indifferntly allow themselves to become failure conscience. (Quote by - Contributed by: Anna Williams)
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
Actually, I thought I threw the ball decently. I just felt in good conscience I wasn't going to be able to turn it up to that next level. I'd say my velocity was anywhere from 92 to probably 96 mph. But that's not as consistent as I need to be to face the competition we're going to have. I couldn't in good conscience go out there and put myself into that situation. (Quote by - Billy Wagner)
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. (Quote by - Barbara Deming)
This goes to the core of what it means to be an American. Conscience is the most sacred of all property. Doctors, dentists, nurses and other health care workers should not be forced to violate their consciences. (Quote by - David Stevens)
Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
Why should not Conscience have vacation As well as other Courts o' th' nation? Have equal power to adjourn, Appoint appearance and return? (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))
Love is too young to know what conscience is. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. (Quote by - Bible)
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to = remain silent. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Conscience reigns but it does not govern. (Quote by - Paul Valery)
Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping. (Quote by - Izaak Walton)
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
A clear conscience is a soft pillow. (Quote by - German Proverb)
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade- name of the firm. That is all. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Conscience is thoroughly well -bred, and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
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. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. (Quote by - George Bancroft)
When a man won't listen to his conscience, it's usually because he doesn't want advice from a total stranger (Quote by - Lindsey Stewart)
Possible issue of the conscience: today, which shall be my torment? (Quote by - Mariana Fulger)
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. (Quote by - George Santayana)
We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep. (Quote by - Carl Von Ossietzky)
For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; / And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? / But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. (Quote by - Bible)
I wish it never happened, ... I wish this sad chapter wasn't opened, but you have to do your duty, whether it's pleasant or whether it's onerous, and I think America needs some reassurance that people do have principles and do have a conscience and are going to vote their principles and their conscience. (Quote by - Henry Hyde)
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
He listened carefully, he listened thoughtfully. He did not respond to challenges or views that were presented. I do think he felt this should be a vote of conscience and I think in the end he voted his conscience, and I think at the end of the day that speaks volumes about his leadership. (Quote by - Wade Henderson)
Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep. (Quote by - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne)
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. (Quote by - James Freeman Clarke)
A quiet conscience makes one so serene! Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. (Quote by - English Proverb)
You have a situation where any minister anywhere can claim, 'My conscience tells me I can sleep with 16- year- old girl outside my marriage vows,' and who's to question his conscience? (Quote by - Stephen Taber)
The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty. (Quote by - Simon Wiesenthal)
The still small voice is wanted. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Ghandi's seven sins: Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Knowledge without character Commerce without morality Science without humility Worship without sacrifice Politics without principle (Quote by - Mahatma Ghandi)
We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again. (Quote by - Samuel Rutherford)
If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts us. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
The soft whispers of the God in man. (Quote by - Edward Young)
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life (Quote by - Norman Cousins)
A good conscience is a continual Christmas. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
Liberty of conscience (when people have consciences) is rightly considered the most indispensable of liberties. (Quote by - Haddon Chambers)
But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The entire event was to show students the consciences of them choosing to drink and drive. We wanted them to understand there are real life consciences for real life choices. (Quote by - Margie Coburn)
He's going to live with this a lot longer than we will. That's his conscience, and his girlfriend's conscience. (Quote by - Bob Schindler)
I feel bad that I don't feel worse. (Quote by - Michael Frayn)
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. (Quote by - Richard Bach)
Conscience does make cowards of us all. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, self. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
Don't follow the mind. Don't follow the body. Follow the Conscience. That is the main principle of this text. So we should follow our Conscience. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
There is no future pang Can deal that justice on the self condemn'd He deals on his own soul. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
It was with a serene conscience that I entered into this ordeal, and it is with a serene conscience that I come out of it. (Quote by - Idrissa Seck)
So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth. (Quote by - Dante)
He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason. (Quote by - Jeremy Taylor)
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. (Quote by - Stephen R. Covey)
The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
The Past lives o'er again, In its effects, and to the guilty spirit The ever-frowning Present is its image. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Look, I don't know whether God exists. I don't know that. And I tell you one thing, I am not frightened of my beliefs. If there is a God who is threatening me with damnation because I don't believe in Him, so be it. I've lived my life in conscience, and I will suffer damnation willingly in conscience against a tyrannical God who would damn me because, on the basis of the intelligence He gave me, I have come to a conclusion doubting His existence, and I will continue to be a skeptic all of my life. (Quote by - Alan M. Dershowitz)
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. (Quote by - French proverb)
Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd, wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue! (Quote by - John Milton)
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof: / Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience? / For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? / Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. (Quote by - Bible)
Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe! (Quote by - George Crabbe)
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The government insists it is not repressing religious or political rights. Some people may argue that Vietnam does not have freedom and democracy and only has a one- party system. But you know, our ultimate goal is to maintain political stability and serve the interests of the people, ... We do not agree with arguments from the outside that there are prisoners of conscience in Vietnam. We do not have any prisoners of conscience in Vietnam. (Quote by - Phan Van Khai)
Who you are is a result of the conscience decisions you make. Actions define a person - not thoughts. So whatever you do, don't get bored. (Quote by - Agent420)
I fell in love with my wife when I thought I could never love anyone with that intensity. She consumes me so much, I have made her the keeper of my conscience. (Quote by - Miguel A. Correa)
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt. (Quote by - Horace)
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice. (Quote by - Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.(Quote by - Ovid)
The only incorruptible thing about us. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
They have cheveril consciences that will stretch. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge. (Quote by - Alphonse De Lamartine)
O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore! (Quote by - Dante)
The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution. (Quote by - William Orville Douglas)
Corruption is simply crime without conscience. (Quote by - George Marek)
There is very little recognition that the conscience of the woman is as important, let alone more important, than the conscience of the provider. (Quote by - Frances Kissling)
We have left the issue of impeachment to the consciences of the men and women in the Congress, ... Unfortunately, that's not been the case with respect to the White House and the administration. They've weighed in, they've lobbied, but we've said it's a matter of conscience. (Quote by - Bob Livingston)
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
A cleere conscience is a sure carde. (Quote by - John Lyly)
Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face of such misery. We may need to wake up our conscience and our conscience must force us to act. (Quote by - Kofi Annan)
Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. (Quote by - Thomas Hobbes)
Conscience is a sacred sanctuary where God alone may enter as judge. (Quote by - Felicite Robert de Lamennais)
