Conscience Quotes - page 3

Look to your health and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of a blessing that money cannot buy. (Izaak Walton)
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
John Milton
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
Joseph Conrad
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
Giacomo Casanova
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
Martin Luther
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
Honoré de Balzac
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
Salvatore Quasimodo
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. (Liu Xiaobo)
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.
John Updike
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Dante Alighieri
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
Karl Barth
Conscience is a God to all mortals.
Menander
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
François Rabelais
To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.
José Rizal
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.
O. Henry
Conscience is God's presence in humans.
Emanuel Swedenborg
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
Steven Wright
Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience. (Isaiah Berlin)
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us.
Joseph Addison
Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
Laurence Sterne
A clere conscience is a sure carde.
John Lyly