Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right; no one can be always right.” — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must enter and take possession of the consciences of the children, of the consciences of the young, because they do belong,… — Plutarco Elias Calles Copy Share Image
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“Only a church free of any outside domination can be the conscience of society and, as Washington pastor Myron Augsburger has written,… — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
I climbed into Misery and called Uncle Bob. “We hooking up?” “Why does everything out of your mouth make me sound incestuous?”… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
True happiness, oh young people, does not consist in the pleasures of this world, or in earthly things, but in peace of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective… There is something about a war like… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
God has come again and again in various Forms, has spoken again and again in different words and different languages the Same… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“True strength. There is no conflict with vulnerability or humility. Indeed, vulnerability and humility are essential here, and ultimately what makes strength… — Darrell Calkins Copy Share Image
It does not matter what religion you are as long as your conscience guides your words and actions. We are all reflections… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . .… — Florence Luscomb Copy Share Image
As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience… Liberalism does not… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience. — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies,… — Donald Cargill Copy Share Image
“You are my courage, as I am your Conscience," he whispered. "You are my hear and I your compassion. We are neither… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience… — Andrea Jung Copy Share Image
Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“It was simply a way of giving herself some relief, because actually they were joined till death by a bond that was… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs… — Lucy Lawless Copy Share Image
My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right? — Dexter Scott King Copy Share Image
Jamie Kilstein is amazing and I will be spreading the word. He has the spark that energized my conscience. We need more… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that… — Jim Doyle Copy Share Image
Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience...to be grateful and to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything. — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
