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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
~By Sophocles ~
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
A satellite has no conscience.
~By Edward R. Murrow ~
My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.
~By Blanche Lincoln ~
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
~By Hartley William Shawcross ~
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.
~By John Acton ~
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
~By Robert Peel ~
Conscience is a man's compass.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
~By Harold Coffin ~
There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
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.
~By Maria Monk ~
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 ~
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
~By Margaret Deland ~
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 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 ~
When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.
~By Kathryn Bigelow ~
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 ~
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 ~
To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
~By Charles V ~
As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.
~By Jerry Costello ~
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.
~By Georg Buchner ~
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 ~
I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.
~By Boris Trajkovski ~
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
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 matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
~By Robert Hall ~
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
~By Doug Larson ~
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. ~
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
~By Mary Wortley Montagu ~
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
~By Douglas Horton ~
In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.
~By Robert Casey ~
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 ~
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
~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 ~
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 ~
Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.
~By Jared Leto ~
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.
~By John Oldham ~
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 ~
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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 ~
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
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.
~By Barbara Deming ~
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
~By Wilhelm Frick ~
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 ~
Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.
~By Jose Saramago ~
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
~By Dante Alighieri ~
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
~By Mary McCarthy ~
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
~By Ogden Nash ~
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 ~
Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction.
~By Wilford O. Cross ~
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.
~By James MacGregor Burns ~
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 ~
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
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 ~
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
~By Adam Smith ~
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 ~
A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
~By Pam Brown ~
The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.
~By John S. Dickey ~
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 ~
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 has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
~By Carolyn Wells ~
Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
~By Logan P. Smith ~
Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.
~By James McHenry ~
The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
~By Ed Markey ~
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.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
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 ~
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
~By Irving Layton ~
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
~By Adam Smith ~
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
~By Saint Ambrose ~
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 ~
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
~By Thomas de Quincey ~
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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 ~
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.
~By Pol Pot ~
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
~By Logan Pearsall Smith ~
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 - the only incorruptible thing about us.
~By Henry Fielding ~
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
~By William E. Gladstone ~
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
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