Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
“In life I would much prefer to be sinned upon than the sinner. It is easier, vous comprenez? With the clear conscience… — Nikki Sex Copy Share Image
“-“Why do men like you do the job you do? It can’t be for the medals. And it’s certainly not the money.”… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
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