Conscience Quotes · Page 31

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.

— Albert Schweitzer

The only thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

— Anonymous

To be offended by a random post, one must first have a guilty conscience.

— Anonymous

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

— Rex Stout

Look, I do spray flies, but I have a really big conscience.

— Judith Durham

“- a bad conscience is indeed able to make life interesting.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.

— Samuel Rutherford

I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.

— John Henry Newman

Guilt is always a good thing. If I kick you in the groin right now and don't feel guilty about it there's…

— Lino Rulli

“If this inner and critical voice has kept you safe for many years as your inner voice of authority, you may end…

— Richard Rohr

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

— Kenneth Kaunda

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

— Amity Shlaes

I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to…

— Cody Johnson

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

— Desmond Tutu

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

— Mo Yan

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

— Saint Augustine

Treat your date with the respect and purity you hope your future spouse will have. Keep in mind how you will expect…

— Jason Evert

... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be…

— Barack Obama

When people in a democracy are not educated in the art of living -- to strengthen their conscience, compassion, and ability to…

— Paul K. Chappell

The people are led to find in the productive apparatus the effective agent of thought and action to which their personal thought…

— Herbert Marcuse

I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote…

— Lord Acton

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience,…

— Charles Lamb

With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but…

— Jean Piaget

John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend…

— Marilynne Robinson

Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic…

— Saul Alinsky

“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

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

— Jack London

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

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

— Anton Chekhov

“C.J.’s words sounded again and again in her head. She knew that she had not given her an answer, because Lourdes honestly…

— Anonymous

It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini,…

— Camille Flammarion

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

— Charles Kuralt

Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible.

— Jean Piaget

[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

— Bill Moyers

I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience.

— Charles Darwin

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

— Dietrich von Hildebrand

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

— Waris Ahluwalia

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

— Anonymous

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

— Mark Hook