Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Once you're looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot,… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience . — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done. And then try to bring those things… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
We try to do music with a conscience. We'd never look back and say, 'We are embarrassed or ashamed.' It paid off… — Philip Bailey 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
Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper,… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Unjust social orders do not fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
“We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D—— on the score of orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals… — Stephen A. Douglas Copy Share Image
I wish our country could be a free and happy one. Every citizen need not go against their conscience and can find… — Xu Zhiyong Copy Share Image
Modern value-neutral society (Gesellschaft rather than Gemeinschaft) is systematized predation tempered not by conscience or values but rather merely by a system… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Many liberals believe in God; many conservatives do. What matters is not whether people believe in God but what text, if any,… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“If someone with a high level of authority were to ask me, "Suzy, how can we make people so incredibly stupid and… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
The truly great consider, first, how they may gain the approbation of God, and, secondly, that of their own conscience. Having done… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for… — Adolf Eichmann Copy Share Image
Being a man with a conscience I simply felt that I had to do something - anything! - about the world we… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or… — Martha Reeves Copy Share Image
The Islamic Revolution of Iran is honourable for it is the cry which has its origin in Ayatollah Khomeini's conscience. — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep… — Frank A. Clark Copy Share Image
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I stand up for what is right even if it puts me in a political conundrum. Supporting Senator Sanders was one of… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was answerable.” — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
