Conscience Quotes - page 2

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. (C. S. Lewis)
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Andrew Jackson
Let it, then, 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.
John Tyler
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.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.
Blaise Pascal
A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.
Georg Büchner
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...
Georges Rouault
Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.
Henry Taylor
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. (Henry James)
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.
Aleister Crowley
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
Ambrose Bierce
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests, that the United States is, or should or could be the global gendarme.
Robert McNamara
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Oliver Goldsmith
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
Octavia Butler
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A satellite has no conscience.
Edward R. Murrow
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.
William Congreve
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. (Michel de Montaigne)
What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
Helen Rowland
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert G. Ingersoll
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Max Beerbohm
The good conscience is an invention of the devil.
Albert Schweitzer