Conscience Quotes

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Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am… — Albert Einstein
I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like… — Woody Allen
Some people say they will follow their conscience..many of us have dead consciences. Your conscience is no longer a safe guide. You've harden it, you've… — Billy Graham
But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just… — Mark Twain
There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides. — Robert Breault
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. — Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross
What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts… — Norman Cousins
I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve… — James Nachtwey
RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. — Ambrose Bierce
Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we do because we… — Arnold J. Toynbee
MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT… — Andrei Tarkovsky
The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they… — Fulton J. Sheen
We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Your constitution guarantees to every citizen, even the humblest, the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. It promises to all, religious freedom, the right to… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend… — Joseph Story
The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion… — Thomas Jefferson
As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be more… — James Madison
MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes… — Thomas Jefferson
It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to be done by… — Samuel West
By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but… — William Penn

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