There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
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 ~
As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.
~By Mike Rounds ~
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 ~
We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.
~By Carl von Ossietzky ~
Go by your own conscience.
~By Steve Chabot ~
Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction.
~By Wilford O. Cross ~
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
~By Angela Carter ~
Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
I believe you have to nurture your conscience.
~By Loretta Young ~
I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.
~By Beatrice Dalle ~
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
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 of them.
~By Mark Twain ~
Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.
~By Henry Waxman ~
I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
~By Octavia Butler ~
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 ~
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 ~
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
~By Mary Wortley Montagu ~
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 ~
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 ~
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
~By Madame de Stael ~
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
~By Saint Ambrose ~
There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
~By Douglas Horton ~
The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
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 ~
No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.
~By Jim Wallis ~
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 ~
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
~By Harper Lee ~
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 ~
Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.
~By Budd Schulberg ~
In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.
~By Robert Casey ~
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
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 ~
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~
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 ~
Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
~By Joseph Cook ~
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
~By John Calvin ~
The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.
~By Kenneth Kaunda ~
Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
~By Henry Fielding ~
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
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 ~
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
~By Paul Hindemith ~
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 ~
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
~By Lech Walesa ~
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
~By Irving Layton ~
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 ~
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
~By George Bancroft ~
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
~By Thomas de Quincey ~
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 ~
No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.
~By Rocco Buttiglione ~
I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.
~By Anita Hill ~
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
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 ~
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
~By Nelson Algren ~
Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.
~By Henry Taylor ~
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 ~
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
~By Robert McNamara ~
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 ~
I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
~By Van Jones ~
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 ~
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 ~
The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.
~By Scott McClellan ~
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
~By B. C. Forbes ~
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 ~
Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.
~By Caspar Weinberger ~
I have a clear conscience.
~By Wilhelm Canaris ~
The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
~By Ida B. Wells ~
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 ~
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
~By Barbara Deming ~
Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 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 ~
To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience.
~By Eli Khamarov ~
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
~By Robert Redford ~
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
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 ~
Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.
~By John Oldham ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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