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.
Conscience Quotes (559 Quotes)
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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.
Nothing short of a revolution will stop what has become a crisis of conscience and integrity for colleges and universities in this country,
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
When you lose, you always go looking for excuses, ... I'm the ideal scapegoat, but that doesn't bother me. It's not my problem. My conscience is clear.
It is a call to conscience, and it's going to help the cause, because we better get this right or it's going to tear the country apart.
Love is too young to know what conscience is;
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world
I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience, which is God.
When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the public consciousness -- it has also become a part of the public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy begin to hum.
Freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom of mass media, property rights -- all those basic elements of a civilized society will be safely protected by the state,
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
Conscience is an oracle of the Divinity.
I think that (my character) President David Palmer was the voice of conscience on that series, and it was a mistake to take that voice away. Of course, as an actor, I'm happy that I can now work with Mamet.
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
I have a clear conscience, I have not knowingly done anything wrong and I have no intention of pardoning myself,
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.
If you had any conscience at all, this wouldn't happen. We would find other sources of energy instead of trying to destroy our back yard.
I think it shows that you are a man of conscience and principle.
I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful -- of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience. . .
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
The softest pillow is a clean conscience.
The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.
Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things in short whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you however innocent it may be in itself.
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.
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.
He's got it all. He's got charm, he's got looks, he's got brains, he's got a conscience. He has everything any movie star could want to have, any director or producer, and then some.
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.
It was the same story when Roberts was asked whether he believed in a person's right to privacy, a cornerstone of Roe v. Wade. Senator, I do. The right to privacy is protected under the Constitution in various ways, ... matters of conscience.
Was not Jesus an extremist for love 'Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.' Was not Amos an extremist for justice 'Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.' Was not Paul an extremist for the gospel of Jesus Christ 'I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.' Was not Martin Luther an extremist 'Here I stand I can do none other so help me God.' Was not John Bunyan an extremist 'I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.' Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist 'This nation cannot survive half slave and half free.' Was not Thomas Jefferson an extremist 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' So the question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be. Will we be extremists for hate or will we be extremists for love Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or will we be extremists for the cause of justice In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill, three men were crucified. We must not forget that all three were crucified for the same crime the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thusly fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment.
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.
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.
If Rodney King had obeyed the orders clearly given and had laid down in a prone position on the night of his famous encounter with Los Angeles police, 58 people would be alive today, 16 billion would be circulating in the economy and four dedicated LAPD officers who were working to the book that night would not have been forced to endure two trials (the first had acquitted them) and had their careers destroyed to appease the liberal conscience. But liberals had to make their point.
A good conscience is a continued Christmas.
In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article.
You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
Faith, some certain dregs of conscience
are yet within me.
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.
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.
He was troubled by it. He didn't know what to do. It shocked his conscience, basically.
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.
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.