It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature". — Ian Gardner Copy Share Image
Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of… — James Ussher Copy Share Image
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.” — William Penn Copy Share Image
I think that the only ultimate guide we have is our conscience, and if the law of the land goes against our… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil. — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
Who can assure us that we will be alive tomorrow? Let us listen to the voice of our conscience, to the voice… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
“Conscience. ... Which is why, Gamache knew, it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without… — Frederick Lewis Donaldson Copy Share Image
An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“And, especially if they hear your voice in their head as a guilty conscience, they have the additional struggle of determining if… — Pam Laricchia Copy Share Image
In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms.… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep - but an intruder came, now, that would not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Right and wrong, good and bad, he regarded as qualities solely of conduct—of acts and omissions; there being no feeling which may… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image