By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation. — Fulton J. Sheen 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
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
“When a person denies his conscience for too long, it can become seared. That person becomes susceptible to receiving and accepting all… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“Over the pope as the expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there still stands one’s own conscience, which must be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Our challenge is to mobilize a new coalition of conscience to restore the Voting Rights Act, strengthen voting rights and broaden voter… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that men think there is no God because they wish there were none. They find it hard to believe… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be punishment as well as the prison.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
