All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive. — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
“It may be necessary to make compromises in everyday politics, but we cannot compromise with our conscience.” — Ludwig Erhard Copy Share Image
There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Both the mind and the conscience can become so defiled that they cease making distinctions between what is pure and what is… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“The religion that I advocate, and so did the mortal humans known as Jesus, Buddha and Nanak, is the religion of love,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I hate a conscience. It's always making you feel low down and disreputable. I don't believe I will say anything to my… — Kate Langley Bosher Copy Share Image
“When conscience is immobilised, public trust has disappeared. At that point, by default, institutions become omnipotent.” — Raymond Dirks Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
On past records I usually did start with a story or an idea for a song and then write around it, but… — David Bazan Copy Share Image
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a… — Henry David Thoreau 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
we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men… — William the Silent Copy Share Image
It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't.… — Jean Ferris Copy Share Image
“Therefore I permit every man to hold either of these opinions, as he chooses. My one concern at present is to remove… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“God created every man to be free. The ability to choose whether to live free or enslaved, right or wrong, happy or… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Believe me, people do change and they change often and many times through their lifetime. However, due to naiveness, passivity and selfishness,… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“The authority of the Church was thrown over by the authority of the state. Twenty years only have passed, and the authority… — Lucy Beckett Copy Share Image
Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience… — John Selden Copy Share Image
“I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The idea of good and evil has thus nothing to do with religion or a mystic conscience. It is a natural need… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue. — Lambert of Maastricht Copy Share Image
Women are the social conscience of a country. They hold our societies together. — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
