Conscience Quotes - page 4

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience. (Matthew Arnold)
The greatest want of the world is the want of men-men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall. View quote
Ellen G. White
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. View quote
Walter Lippmann
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. View quote
Thomas De Quincey
Freedom is a clear conscience. View quote
Periander
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. View quote
Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. View quote
Thomas Merton
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. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If you would sleep soundly, take a clear conscience to bed with you. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people. View quote
Herbert Hoover
Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled. (William Butler Yeats)
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. View quote
Carl Jung
I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world. View quote
Audrey Hepburn
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. View quote
H. L. Mencken
In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing. View quote
James Russell Lowell
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. View quote
Anne Frank
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience. View quote
Garrett Hardin
The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. (Sydney Smith)
I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities A still and quiet conscience. View quote
William Shakespeare
The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. View quote
William Shakespeare
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. View quote
Ogden Nash
Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us. View quote
Sigmund Freud