Conscience Quotes - page 3

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. (Max Beerbohm)
The good conscience is an invention of the devil. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
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. View quote
Izaak Walton
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. View quote
Albert Einstein
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. View quote
Martin Luther
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. View quote
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. View quote
John Updike
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! View quote
Dante Alighieri
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. View quote
Karl Barth
Science without conscience is the death of the soul. View quote
François Rabelais
To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything. View quote
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. View quote
O. Henry
Conscience is God's presence in humans. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. View quote
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. View quote
Joseph Addison
Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything. View quote
Laurence Sterne
A clere conscience is a sure carde. View quote
John Lyly