Conscience famous quotes

Conscience is a Jewish invention.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Invention #Conscience

A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.
-- Adrian Rogers

#Flesh #Conscience

My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.
-- Alannah Myles

#Fighting #Ache #Conscience

Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Views #Always Believe #Conscience

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.
-- Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

#Revolution #Mass #Conscience

FEAR only one person that is GOD. LISTEN to only one voice that is your CONSCIENCE
-- Amit Abraham

#Voice #Persons #Conscience

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.
-- Anita Hill

#Inspiring #Failing #Conscience

Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
-- Anne Bradstreet

#Hands #Laborers #Conscience

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
-- Anne Hutchinson

#Saint #Host #Conscience

It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
-- Anthony Bourdain

#Moving #Careers #Conscience

Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th' offended gods.
-- Aristophanes

#Running #Conscience #Appease

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.
-- Arthur Koestler

#Conscience

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#Freedom Of Speech #Speech #Conscience

Live with honor and follow your conscience.
-- Benigno Aquino, Jr.

#Honor #Conscience

Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.
-- Benjamin Whichcote

#Dwelling #Conscience

Conscience without judgment is superstition.
-- Benjamin Whichcote

#Superstitions #Judgment #Conscience

I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.
-- Bidzina Ivanishvili

#Past #My Past #Conscience

[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience . He was killed for it.
-- Bill Moyers

#Kings #Luther #Conscience

Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.
-- Billy Graham

#Want #Wheelbarrows #Conscience

There's so few people in this town with a conscience.
-- Blake Edwards

#People #Towns #Conscience

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.
-- Buchi Emecheta

#Guilty Conscience #Guilty #Conscience

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.
-- Budd Schulberg

#Nuts #Stuff #Conscience

Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Blind #Conscience #Disobedience

We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.
-- Carl von Ossietzky

#Looks #World #Conscience

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.
-- Caspar Weinberger

#Soul #Should #Conscience

I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.
-- Cathy Guisewite

#Insecurity #Conscience

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
-- Charles Kuralt

#Conscience

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.
-- Charles Simmons

#Men #Joy #Conscience

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
-- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

#Heaven #Endeavor #Conscience

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.
-- Chen Guangcheng

#Ask Me #Conscience

Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.
-- Corinne Maier

#Ethics #Used #Conscience

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Oneself #Conscience

You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered. "You are my heart---and I your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. Do ye not know that, Sassenach?
-- Diana Gabaldon

#Heart #Compassion #Conscience

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.
-- Dietrich von Hildebrand

#Compromise #Beggar #Conscience

When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at.
-- Dominic Lawson

#Winning #Chess #Conscience

Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.
-- Dorotheus of Gaza

#Evil #Conscience #Adversaries

A satellite has no conscience.
-- Edward R. Murrow

#Science #Satellites #Conscience

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Conscience

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.
-- Ernest Gaines

#Conscience

The American conscience died with the Kennedys.
-- Frank Miller

#Conscience

Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Conscience

My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty ..
-- Franz Stangl

#Duty #Clear #Conscience

No infallible oracle out of the breast.
-- Frederic Henry Hedge

#Oracles #Breasts #Conscience

Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Men #Conscience #Appease

Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.
-- George Eliot

#Patterns #Conscience

Don't throw away your conscience.
-- George McGovern

#Conscience

Corruption is simply crime without conscience.
-- George Richard Marek

#Corruption #Crime #Conscience

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.
-- Geraldine Jewsbury

#Crime #Folly #Conscience

Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.
-- Henry Clay Trumbull

#Doe #Taught #Conscience

The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.
-- Herbert Marcuse

#Unconscious #Superego #Conscience

A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
-- Howard Schultz

#Great Business #Conscience #Who You Are

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
-- Irving Layton

#Self Esteem #Halos #Conscience

A good conscience is paradise.
-- Jacobus Arminius

#Paradise #Conscience

The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.
-- James Freeman Clarke

#Courage #Individual #Conscience

Conscience is the root of all true courage.
-- James Freeman Clarke

#Roots #True Courage #Conscience

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.
-- James Gates Percival

#Awful #Hours #Conscience

Evil societies always kill their consciences.
-- James L. Farmer, Jr.

#Evil #Civil Rights #Conscience

Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.
-- James M. Kouzes

#Leadership #Conscience

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.
-- James Russell Lowell

#Failing #Intellect #Conscience

My favorite activity is conscience dreaming.
-- Jared Lee Loughner

#Dream #My Favorite #Conscience

I don't fear for a physical death, but when my conscience dies, that is a real death
-- Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale

#Real #Conscience

Joe Paterno left this world with a clear conscience,
-- Jay Paterno

#World #Clear #Conscience

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
-- Jean de la Bruyere

#Property #Conscience

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Deceiving #Reason #Conscience

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.
-- Jim Carroll

#Conscience

The conscience is more wise than science.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

#Wise #Conscience

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

#Virtue #Conscience

That, if the Gentiles, (whom no Law inspir'd,) By Nature did what was by Law requir'd; They, who the written Rule and never known, Were to themselves both Rule and Law alone: To Natures plain Indictment they shall plead; And, by their Conscience, be condemn'd or freed.
-- John Dryden

#Law #Indictment #Conscience

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#Inspirational #Leadership #Conscience

A clere conscience is a sure carde.
-- John Lyly

#Conscience

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.
-- John Milton

#Book #Censorship #Conscience

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.
-- John Mortimer

#Alcohol #Humans #Conscience

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.
-- Jose Rizal

#Doubt #Would Be #Conscience

All a man can betray is his conscience.
-- Joseph Conrad

#Men #Betray #Conscience

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.
-- Joseph Cook

#Ocean #Compass #Conscience

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
-- Joseph Cook

#Compass #Reason #Conscience

Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.
-- Jules Simon

#Liberty #Wish #Conscience

Conscience: that quiet voice which whispers that someone is watching.
-- Julian Tuwim

#Voice #Quiet #Conscience

Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
-- Karl Kraus

#Blushing #Conscience

... conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience.
-- Kelly Miller

#Life #Efficiency #Conscience

The conscience of human never allows us to be quited with the unjustice.
-- Khem Veasna

#Humans #Conscience

Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system.
-- Lauren Zalaznick

#Television #Conscience #Values

Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.
-- Leon Blum

#World #Fascism #Conscience

I've always tried to vote my conscience.
-- Leonard Lance

#Vote #Conscience

A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.
-- Leonard Ravenhill

#Emotion #Prophet #Conscience

Man's conscience is the oracle of God.
-- Lord Byron

#Men #Oracles #Conscience

It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.
-- Louis Simpson

#Complicated #Conscience

Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.
-- Louise Penny

#Mistake #Conscience

Sin begins in thought, which is the intimation of conscience. So, if the conscience holds sin, then its thoughts shall be evil.
-- Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

#Evil #Sin #Conscience

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Theatre #Virtue #Conscience

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
-- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

#Chiefs #Politeness #Conscience

Nature's hasty conscience.
-- Maria Edgeworth

#Shame #Conscience

On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.
-- Maria Monk

#Numbers #Church #Conscience

You can't have a conscience in the pimp game.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Games #Pimp #Conscience

One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.
-- Martha Stout

#Way #Conscience

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.
-- Martin Firrell

#Century #21st Century #Conscience

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.
-- Martin Firrell

#Writing #Add #Conscience

My conscience is captive to the Word of God
-- Martin Luther

#Word Of God #Conscience

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Ends #Conscience

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
-- Mary Augusta Ward

#Men #Monopoly #Conscience