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 ~
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 ~
There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
~By Paul Hindemith ~
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 ~
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
~By Norman Rockwell ~
The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.
~By Scott McClellan ~
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 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 ~
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
~By Robert E. Lee ~
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 ~
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
~By George Bancroft ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.
~By Joe Henderson ~
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 ~
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
~By B. C. Forbes ~
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 ~
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 ~
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
~By Logan P. Smith ~
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 ~
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 ~
A clear conscience is a sure card.
~By John Lyly ~
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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 ~
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
~By Anne Frank ~
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 ~
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 ~
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
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 ~
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 ~
Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
~By Victoria Jackson ~
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 ~
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
~By Sophocles ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.
~By Peter Akinola ~
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
We were a country band with a social conscience.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
~By John Milton ~
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
~By Michel Foucault ~
Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction.
~By Wilford O. Cross ~
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
~By Harriet Martineau ~
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 ~
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 ~
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
~By Margaret Deland ~
I have no bad conscience.
~By Alois Brunner ~
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 ~
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
~By Mary Wortley Montagu ~
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
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 ~
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 ~
The conscience of the dying belies their life.
~By Luc de Clapier ~
But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
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 ~
As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
~By Wilhelm Frick ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.
~By Budd Schulberg ~
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 ~
We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.
~By Wendell Willkie ~
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
~By Marguerite Young ~
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
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 good conscience is a continual feast.
~By Robert Burton ~
I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
~By Octavia Butler ~
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
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 ~
In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
~By Robert Hall ~
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
~By Benjamin Whichcote ~
It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
~By William Laud ~
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
~By Elizabeth I ~
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 ~
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 ~
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
~By Carolyn Wells ~
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 ~
Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.
~By Thor Heyerdahl ~
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