When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let me, tonight look back across the span Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say- Because of some good act… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“Conscience is the endowment that senses our congruence or disparity with correct principles and lifts us toward them—when it’s in shape.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear,… — Ovid Copy Share Image
If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me,… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I do not turn to history to draw from it an easy lesson of hope, but to confront my experience with that… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion… — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my… — Boris Trajkovski Copy Share Image
To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To the last day of your life, be positive; try to be cheerful. Even at the very end, don't think, "I am… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
People of conscience in our leadership in Washington have been scared off by the right and the fossil fuel lobbies. They won't… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.' Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
“The people of today would rather stand next to a man with no substance but covered in gold, rather than the man… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“If you do not stand up for all that is right, then understand that you are part of the reason why there… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My mind makes the choice, my conscience is the voice, it's my souls job to measure and my body gets the pleasure! — Desmond Fouche Copy Share Image
Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself. — Robert Ludlum Copy Share Image
“6 I will maintain my innocence without wavering. My conscience is clear for as long as I live.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What a man calls his conscience is merely the sentimental reaction after too much wine and love. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
You can run and you can hide, but you can never get away from your conscience, it will find you when you… — Michael Hayssus Copy Share Image
“RICH I’m lamenting. I’ve lost my innocence. CROMWELL You lost that some time ago. If you’ve only just noticed, it can’t have… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?In the end, you might merely be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience; you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in… — Sinead O'Conner Copy Share Image
