Conscience Quotes · Page 42

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

— Joyce Meyer

All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.

— Roger Williams

We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.

— Carl von Ossietzky

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

— Joyce Meyer

As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.

— Mike Rounds

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

— William Shakespeare

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

— Jose Saramago

The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin

— Salvador De Madariaga

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

— John of the Cross

It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of…

— Shane Claiborne

This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of this nation.

— Al Sharpton

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

— August Strindberg

Once you're looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot,…

— Genesis P-Orridge

Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but…

— Dorotheus of Gaza

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not…

— Francis of Assisi

They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off…

— Malcolm X

I cannot in good conscience vote in favor of tax cuts, irrespective of their size, or to which segment of the population…

— John McCain

I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I…

— Albert Einstein

Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego,…

— George Crabbe

There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Our sensitivity to personal guilt is a fundamental trait of our humanness that distinguishes us from animals. To try to suppress the…

— John Macarthur

Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of…

— Judith Viorst

The real transgression occurs when religion wants government to tell citizens how to live uniquely personal parts of their lives. The failure…

— Edward Kennedy

“I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Believe me, people do change and they change often and many times through their lifetime. However, due to naiveness, passivity and selfishness,…

— Robin Sacredfire

Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience…

— John Selden

“The authority of the Church was thrown over by the authority of the state. Twenty years only have passed, and the authority…

— Lucy Beckett

Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't.…

— Jean Ferris

“Therefore I permit every man to hold either of these opinions, as he chooses. My one concern at present is to remove…

— Martin Luther

I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope…

— James Nachtwey

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

— William Shakespeare

“Your clear conscience is due to a poor memory.”

— Anonymous

“A guilty conscience is not worth extra food.”

— Ruta Sepetys

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

— Richard Bach

I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.

— Kage Baker

I go to bed with a clear conscience. I sleep great. I know I did my best.

— Alistair Overeem

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.

— Arthur Koestler

Always let your conscience be your guide. -The Blue Fairy

— Pinocchio