The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.
~By John S. Dickey ~
To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
~By Charles V ~
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
~By George Washington ~
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.
~By Ida B. Wells ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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.
~By W. H. Auden ~
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
~By Benjamin Whichcote ~
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
~By William Faulkner ~
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.
~By Charles Edison ~
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
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 ~
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 ~
The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.
~By Tim McGraw ~
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
~By Thomas Paine ~
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.
~By James Larkin ~
Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.
~By James McHenry ~
Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
~By Bernard Cornwell ~
Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.
~By Donald Cargill ~
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
~By Thomas de Quincey ~
The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.
~By Shirley Temple ~
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
~By Voltaire ~
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
~By Marguerite Young ~
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 ~
I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.
~By Bernard Cornwell ~
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.
~By Budd Schulberg ~
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience.
~By Eli Khamarov ~
Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.
~By Budd Schulberg ~
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
~By Albert Camus ~
Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!
~By David Eddings ~
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
~By Martin Luther ~
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
~By Doug Larson ~
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
~By John Henry Newman ~
On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.
~By Maria Monk ~
I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.
~By Jim Doyle ~
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
~By Albert Camus ~
The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.
~By Andrew Sullivan ~
A satellite has no conscience.
~By Edward R. Murrow ~
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
~By Ogden Nash ~
You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
~By Martin Luther ~
I believe you have to nurture your conscience.
~By Loretta Young ~
A clear conscience is a sure card.
~By John Lyly ~
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Public opinion is a second conscience.
~By William R. Alger ~
We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
~By Maurice Hinchey ~
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 ~
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 ~
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
~By Malcolm Wallop ~
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 ~
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
~By George Bancroft ~
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
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.
~By Alexander Solzhenitsyn ~
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
~By Margaret Deland ~
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
~By Sophocles ~
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
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 ~
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 ~
But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.
~By Will Adams ~
The conscience of the dying belies their life.
~By Luc de Clapier ~
The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
~By Franz von Papen ~
When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
~By Jerry West ~
The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
~By Harold Coffin ~
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.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
I have no bad conscience.
~By Alois Brunner ~
The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.
~By Scott McClellan ~
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 ~
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Lee H. Hamilton ~
That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.
~By Joe Henderson ~
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
~By Karl Barth ~
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 ~
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
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