Conscience Quotes
My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?
I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.
I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem.
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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.
Being a man with a conscience I simply felt that I had to do something - anything! - about the world we live in.
Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.
If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world.
We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.
Every religion is good—every religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it.
To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.
We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.
Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.
Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.
If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.
Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.
We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.
If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.
People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.
when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the same.
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or another of the opposing influences that act upon us.
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
A psychopath can tell what you're thinking but what they don't do is feel what you feel. These are people without a conscience.
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.
You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.
