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 ~
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
~By Albert Camus ~
What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
~By Helen Rowland ~
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 ~
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 ~
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
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 ~
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
~By George Bancroft ~
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
~By Margaret Deland ~
A satellite has no conscience.
~By Edward R. Murrow ~
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 ~
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 conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
~By Jean Paul ~
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
~By Dante Alighieri ~
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
~By Mary Wortley Montagu ~
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
~By Sophocles ~
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
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 ~
I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
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 ~
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
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 ~
I believe you have to nurture your conscience.
~By Loretta Young ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.
~By Georg Buchner ~
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
~By Omar N. Bradley ~
As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
~By Wilhelm Frick ~
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 ~
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 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. ~
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
~By Robert McNamara ~
The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.
~By Sergio Aragones ~
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
~By Barbara Deming ~
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 ~
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
~By Octavia Butler ~
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 ~
Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.
~By Caspar Weinberger ~
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 ~
Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.
~By Jared Leto ~
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
~By Irving Layton ~
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 ~
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'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 ~
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
I have no bad conscience.
~By Alois Brunner ~
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 ~
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 ~
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
~By John Dewey ~
Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
~By Henry Fielding ~
Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction.
~By Wilford O. Cross ~
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
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 ~
There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
~By Paul Hindemith ~
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience.
~By Eli Khamarov ~
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
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 ~
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
I have a clear conscience.
~By Wilhelm Canaris ~
As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.
~By Mike Rounds ~
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 ~
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
~By Ogden Nash ~
The conscience of the dying belies their life.
~By Luc de Clapier ~
Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.
~By John Tyler ~
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 ~
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
~By John Milton ~
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 ~
As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.
~By Stacy Keach ~
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 ~
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 ~
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
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 ~
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
~By Carolyn Wells ~
The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.
~By Kenneth Kaunda ~
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 ~
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
~By Robert Casey ~
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
~By Douglas Horton ~
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 ~
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 ~
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