Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
I believe you have to nurture your conscience.
~By Loretta Young ~
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.
~By Abbe Pierre ~
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
~By Max Frisch ~
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
We were a country band with a social conscience.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
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.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
~By Carolyn Wells ~
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Conscience is a man's compass.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
~By Octavia Butler ~
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
~By Elizabeth I ~
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
~By Karl Barth ~
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
~By Octavia Butler ~
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
~By Sydney Smith ~
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
~By William Congreve ~
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
~By Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ~
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
~By Thomas Merton ~
In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.
~By Robert Casey ~
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.
~By Martin Chemnitz ~
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
~By Robert South ~
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
~By Cal Thomas ~
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
~By Ogden Nash ~
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction.
~By Wilford O. Cross ~
To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience.
~By Eli Khamarov ~
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
~By John Milton ~
Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
~By George A. Smith ~
Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.
~By Jared Leto ~
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.
~By Carl Jung ~
If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.
~By Antonin Scalia ~
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.
~By John Amery ~
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
~By William Godwin ~
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
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.
~By Stephen Covey ~
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
~By James Freeman Clarke ~
Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.
~By Budd Schulberg ~
So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.
~By Robert Barclay ~
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
~By Mark Twain ~
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
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.
~By Ron Davies ~
It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.
~By Donald Cargill ~
All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
~By Michelangelo Antonioni ~
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.
~By Georges Rouault ~
If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
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.
~By John Frame ~
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
~By Martin Luther ~
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
~By Albert Camus ~
In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.
~By Ken Calvert ~
The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
~By Maurice Hinchey ~
I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.
~By Matt Drudge ~
I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
~By Barbara Deming ~
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.
~By Samuel Rutherford ~
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
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.
~By Michael Novak ~
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.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.
~By Elena Kagan ~
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
~By Logan P. Smith ~
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
~By Bishop Robert South ~
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.
~By Jacques Lacan ~
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
~By Ogden Nash ~
I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
~By Marguerite Young ~
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
~By Nelson Algren ~
Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
~By James Larkin ~
There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
~By Wilhelm Frick ~
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
~By Harper Lee ~
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.
~By Francis of Assisi ~
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
~By George A. Smith ~
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.
~By Lee Greenwood ~
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.
~By William Ralph Inge ~
When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience.
~By Robert Jenkins ~
As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.
~By Lester Bangs ~
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
~By Jerome K. Jerome ~
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.
~By Frank Howard Clark ~
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
~By George Bancroft ~
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?
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
~By Will Adams ~
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
~By Sophocles ~
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.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
~By Rose Macaulay ~
But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
~By James Otis ~
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
~By Bono ~
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
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