All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone. — John Oldham Copy Share Image
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
My conscience won't allow me to do films I thought were bad but were going to make money. — Barun Sobti Copy Share Image
To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Don't go growing a conscience on me," I said. "I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“But the insane need to do it was stronger than the sense of whether it was a wrong or right thing to… — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
“Something's still wrong--the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone's heart. A conscience… — Heather Day Gilbert Copy Share Image
Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Our consciences are not infallible, and they can become warped or weakened if not kept aligned by the infallible Word of God. — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
At the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment],… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
“To pay no attention to health of body but only that of soul. To plan day on arising and evening examination of… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
In that disputable point of persecuting men for conscience sake, I see such dreadful consequences rising, I would be as fully convinced… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for… — Lewis F. Powell, Jr Copy Share Image
The Free Exercise Clause at the very least was designed to guarantee freedom of conscience by prohibiting any degree of compulsion in… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,--that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“You deal with me very frankly, and I thank you for it,' said I. 'I will try on my side to be… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Given - and this is the fundamental thing - that God's mercy has no limits, if He is approached with a sincere… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
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