No Conscience Quotes

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world.

A conscience is, for a while anyway, pretty easy to fake.

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.

I am bound by the texts of the Bible, my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to act against my conscience.

The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.

We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.

Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!

Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.

Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters!

A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together.

Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong.

I have no boss but my conscience.

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

When a man calls himself an atheist, he is not attacking God; he is attacking his own conscience.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.

We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.

The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

The wounds of conscience always leave a scar.

An evil conscience is often quiet, but never secure.

I'm a human being with a conscience, and when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

There may be some tenderness in the conscience and yet the will be a very stone; and as long as the will stands out, there is no broken heart.

Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.