Conscience Quotes

"I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgement dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me."

"A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right."

"PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket."

"The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it."

"The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience."

"I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity."

"He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason."

"You better examine your conscience and figure out whether or not this is just a little slip, or that we're about to send a man who lacks credibility, I would argue, with half of us on the Hill,"

"Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale."

"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."

"How tedious is a guilty conscience!"

"We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once."

"A bad conscience has a very good memory"

"One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout."

"A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do -- but it does not keep him from doing it."

"according to conscience and principle and nothing else."

"The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach."

"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."

"Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds"

"A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice"