A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times. — Connie Brockway Copy Share Image
I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat. — Leon Blum Copy Share Image
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
At the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment],… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
“To pay no attention to health of body but only that of soul. To plan day on arising and evening examination of… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
In that disputable point of persecuting men for conscience sake, I see such dreadful consequences rising, I would be as fully convinced… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for… — Lewis F. Powell, Jr Copy Share Image
Forget the laws. If the laws don't make sense, if they run contrary to your conscience, you have to disobey them. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
“I almost wish I hadn't any conscience, it's so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing the right and didn't feel uncomfortable… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience. — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
“You govern people, you do good and bad things. If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
A clear conscience is absolutely essential for distinguishing between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. Unconfessed sin is… — Winkie Pratney Copy Share Image
“Wake up your conscience and hold it high as a beacon, so that the whole world can bask in its sanctimonious kernel… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
That little voice that haunting your thoughts, try listing to her.You will be surprised how right your conscience can be most of… — Laylablack Copy Share Image
Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I belong to the political party that generally fits my philosophical beliefs, but I reserve the right to vote my conscience after… — Jeff Fortenberry Copy Share Image
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
“She doesn’t have a conscience.” “Come on. We all have one.” “No, some are born without one. It’s always everyone else’s fault.”… — M.C. Beaton Copy Share Image
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience. — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
“For if you do not consider the man before you to be human, there are few constraints of conscience on your behavior… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience! — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience:… — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience — William Penn Copy Share Image
A good conscience is a soft pillow, meaning you sleep well when you have nothing to feel guilty about — Anne Nwakama Copy Share Image
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