What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so. — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“In Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone he goes so far as to claim that conscientious moral judgement cannot err. The… — Jens Timmermann Copy Share Image
He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies… — John Selden Copy Share Image
God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If you love our country and love your children as much as I know that you do, stand and speak and vote… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I am the conscience of all those who knew something - but did nothing. — Oskar Schindler Copy Share Image
“There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.” — Polybius Copy Share Image
Freedom of religion is one of the greatest gifts of God to man, without distinction of race and color. He is the… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In the wildest anarchy of man's insurgent appetites and sins there is still a reclaiming voice,--a voice which, even when in practice… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles… — Charles Wagner 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 have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If you look into the religions, they have this deep idea of human dignity and the source of dignity being conscience. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as… — Franz von Papen Copy Share Image
Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Make friends with guilt. Guilt is a beautiful emotion that alerts us when something is wrong so that we may achieve peace… — Glenn R. Schiraldi Copy Share Image
EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . .… — Florence Luscomb Copy Share Image
The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand - they only. Know… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are nations that resist, voices that attempt to diminish the urgency or dismiss the science, or declare, either in word or… — Paul Martin Copy Share Image
The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience. — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
