Conscience Quotes · Page 66

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

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

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

— Richard Alleine

Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures.

— Diana Whitney

Our conscience illuminated by the Holy Spirit as we search the Scriptures will show us in every circumstance the right way.

— Richard Wurmbrand

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of…

— Hosea Ballou

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must…

— Bob Dylan

If the gospel was of a nature to be propagated or maintained by the power of the world, God would not have…

— Martin Luther

I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No.…

— Pol Pot

“Whenever you stand up For your conscience, Be prepared to be hated By the wicked. But never, ever, let that scare you;…

— Suzy Kassem

There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic. They reflect three elemental possibilities (conscience,…

— Alija Izetbegovic

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me…

— Honore de Balzac

Beer and other forms of alcohol will do you no good. Their use will be expensive, will dull your conscience, and could…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Your conscience is like the nerve endings in your fingertips. Its sensitivity to external stimuli can be damaged by the buildup of…

— John Macarthur

There's something with actors in their 40s, I don't know - there's this tendency with these guys, either they're not where they…

— Kurt Voss

That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by…

— Patrick Henry

“But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our…

— Doris Lessing

We all listen to two voices. One voice leads us to our vices. The other voice leads us to our virtues. One…

— Tom Krause

The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition…

— Henry Fielding

A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes…

— Jack London

Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing,…

— Anton Chekhov

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Don’t roll your eyes. This question may make you “face palm” in amazement at how strange someone else’s conscience might be. That’s…

— Andrew David Naselli

In L.A., it's very hard to have some kind of conscience of some style out there. The weather's too hot; there's no…

— Jason Statham

The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

— Michel de Montaigne

...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.

— William J. Clinton

“...freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others...”

— John Geddes

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a…

— Walter Lippmann

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed…

— Joseph Joubert

“I don’t want to take away anybody’s religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means.”

— Abhijit Naskar

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

— Leo Tolstoy

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part…

— Lee Maracle

God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

— Henry David Thoreau

Even if you disagree w/me-I HAVE TO STAND,like you FOR WHAT I BELIEVE IN.WITH ALL MY HEART AND MIND

— Ian Somerhalder

The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.

— Joseph Goebbels

Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence with them.

— John C. Maxwell

Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.

— Margaret Cavendish

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and…

— Laura Schlessinger