“To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Cheating is an innate evolutionarily programmed desire, especially in men, but it is not a desire that cannot be controlled.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“...freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; /… — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
And lo and behold, people were amazed: Washington was amazed. The country was amazed. And I was amazed that everybody was amazed.… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God?… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think of Martin Luther King phrase a lot when I'm deciding public issues. He said: "Here I stand: I can do… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
One time I considered making a video game about my life where people control a character called 'Zach Braff' and run around… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock… — Stephen Covey 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
In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience. — Bono Copy Share Image
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
