Conscience Quotes · Page 44

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes

— Chinese Proverbs

“A guilty conscience is a great blessing, but only if it drives us to come home.”

— John Stott

The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

— Izaak Walton

“Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.”

— W Somerset Maugham

The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.

— Edmund Burke

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

— Edward T. Hall

The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.

— James Freeman Clarke

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

— Anita Roddick

“Cheating is an innate evolutionarily programmed desire, especially in men, but it is not a desire that cannot be controlled.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

— William Godwin

And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience…

— Diana Wynne Jones

There may be some tenderness in the conscience and yet the will be a very stone; and as long as the will…

— Richard Alleine

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

— Mo Yan

People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

— Desmond Tutu

Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us.

— Amity Shlaes

All I have to do is keep my spirit, feelings and conscience like a sheet of blank paper, and let the Spirit…

— Brigham Young

Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But…

— Isaac Watts

Genuine bravery for a writer... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be…

— Murong Xuecun

I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked back on…

— Howard Schultz

I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero's responsibility. If you have any…

— Peter Coyote

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother…

— Ben Stein

I think of Martin Luther King phrase a lot when I'm deciding public issues. He said: "Here I stand: I can do…

— Bruce Babbitt

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. It enslaves him almost before he has tasted freedom. The 'ologies' will tell you…

— Anonymous

I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I know many people far more upright and conscientous than I am who disagree, who think nothing of it. I know that…

— Matthew Scully

I have no question that the Roman Catholic Church teaches that abortion in virtually all circumstances is wrong. I think the church's…

— Bruce Babbitt

Faith is the framework for living. It gives us the spirit and heart that affects everything we do. If gives us hope…

— George W. Bush

The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds…

— Anonymous

Contrary to the romantic way in which our history is/has been portrayed, politicians are NOT 'men of good conscience.' In the real…

— Edward Britton

“I am not one of your repentant sinners, Kenneth. I have lived my life—God, what a life!—and as I have lived I…

— Rafael Sabatini

“Freedom of conscience is the core of all freedom”

— Pope Benedict XVI

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

— Dietrich von Hildebrand

The death of one on the conscience of an other can be more than one can bear.

— Mark Hook

FEAR only one person that is GOD. LISTEN to only one voice that is your CONSCIENCE

— Anonymous

I do believe in standing for something more than just a product.

— Waris Ahluwalia

Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

— Wes Fesler

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

— Steven Wright