Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition. — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
I voted for Stevenson as opposed to Eisenhower because I thought he would make a good president, but against my conscience because… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
In 2010, I suggested that if you are a good Muslim with a good conscience, go and look for a better God,… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“The worst thing about social conditioning is that it makes an individual of that society genuinely believe that he or she is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not… — George Washington 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
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies- or to help the world's most desperate - the AIDS… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
You discover your true faith when you start flowing with your conscience. After lessons, visions, and theories validate themselves to you, you… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Absolution is the washing away of sin. The promise of rebirth. And the chance to escape the transgressions of those who came… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
“A conscience that is forbidden to operate in the choice of goals for economic activity is not conscience in the sense in… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There is another life both for you and for me,’ said I. ‘If it be the will of God that we should… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
Perhaps the dumbest of these story lines is that [Pope] Francis has re-opened conversation and debate in a Church that had been… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“In case you’re not bright enough to figure it out, there’s a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“if one doesn’t have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin… — Francis Schaeffer 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
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
A writer just speaks from his heart, mind and soul. They are the conscience keepers of the society. They are the keepers… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“A healthy marriage acts as the vessel of wellbeing and stability for both partners as well as the children.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image