Conscience Quotations | Page 2

Over the years, she's had a lot of hardships. By 2004, she simply wanted to get this off her conscience while she still had time.

I wish it never happened, ... I wish this sad chapter wasn't opened, but you have to do your duty, whether it's pleasant or whether it's onerous, and I think America needs some reassurance that people do have principles and do have a conscience and are going to vote their principles and their conscience.

I think the jury did a darned good job. This man has no soul, no conscience. What else could we ask for?

I think underneath that black jumper, somewhere, there is a sense of conscience. It's his job. I mean, he does enjoy it. He would be a fool not to enjoy it. Nobody in their right mind is going to walk out on the most popular television show in the country for whatever reason, no matter how much money they've got. It's not just money. He loves it and he's good at it. What else is he gonna do? I can't see him selling records in a record shop.

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; / Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy; / When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

I think that (my character) President David Palmer was the voice of conscience on that series, and it was a mistake to take that voice away. Of course, as an actor, I'm happy that I can now work with Mamet.

I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate.

I think it shows that you are a man of conscience and principle.

It is a call to conscience, and it's going to help the cause, because we better get this right or it's going to tear the country apart.

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

You know how people say that young people feel immortal? I don't know what they're talking about. I was planning for how I would deal with my death in good conscience well before I even hit puberty.

We are in this case to defend the rights of military officers to authentically worship according to their conscience, without fear of reprisal that their personal worship could be somehow deemed coercive.

We have an absolutely clear conscience because everything humanly possible is being done with the greatest care for security, also for safety in case of extreme panic.

who is somewhat conscience-driven and dynamic in his opinions. There is pressure to relieve him of his voice.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

A satellite has no conscience.

The soft whispers of the God in man.

When I'd do something bad, my conscience would say, 'What would Grandma think?' ... She taught me the good side, to act right, be polite.

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

One prisoner of conscience is one too many.

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.

Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

Was Karla herself caught in Paul's web, a victim? Or did the fact that she joined him in his crimes in spite of having an apparent conscience make her evil even deeper than his?

We are making these conscience decisions for our schools as well as the overall interpretation of our village.

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

There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

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

Conscience is a Jewish invention.

Though I believe in God, I don't believe in religion for everybody. Some people who are a little weak and don't want to shoulder any responsibility need Catholicism. For people at the other extreme, there is Christian Science... I think a powerful conscience is worth all the religions put together.

We can't use the eucharist as a time . . . to judge a person's conscience by refusing them communion.

Every religion is good—every religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it.

The first condition of happiness is a clear conscience.

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

Truth and love are my law and worship; Form and conscience my manifestation and guide; Nature and peace are my shelter and companion; Order is my attitude; Beauty and perfection are my attack.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.

I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.

This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of this nation.

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.

Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.

Working conditions in U.S. meat and poultry plants should trouble the conscience of every American who eats beef, pork or chicken,

We applaud the five judiciary members who voted their conscience and took a principled position in opposition to the nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the United States. However, we are profoundly disappointed that the committee, as a whole, ignored compelling evidence against his nomination.

Dr. King's lectures and dialogues stirred the concern and sparked the conscience of a generation. As the anniversary of his birth coincides with the anniversary of No Child Left Behind, we must take this opportunity to speak out to ensure fair implementation and full funding of this landmark law.

At this point, we don't feel that we could, in good conscience, charge them for data that might not be complete. But at least we are giving them the data that at this point, is the best we have.

Conscience is a kind of stored procedure which was planted in mankind's collective unconscious. Someone has the buttons to control it.

Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of total moral rigor is not necessarily the way to go. It's the path for very few people. Most people need to come up with some kind of middle ground that satisfies their practical, moral, and philosophical esthetic needs.

Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body

conflicted by her conscience but still unable to escape.

When you lose, you always go looking for excuses, ... I'm the ideal scapegoat, but that doesn't bother me. It's not my problem. My conscience is clear.

Everyone who has a conscience, and a faith in God and the law, cannot find any way to justify this terrible act.

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,

The government prevails on the CBI not to appeal. In the face of this attempt to scuttle the investigations, I think one's conscience should question as to the propriety of what the government and the (Congress) party have been doing and certainly not question the merits of the case.

The sting of conscience teacheth one to sting.

We must be the conscience of our nation. We've got to help somebody. That's what Dr. King would want us to do.

We want you to keep seeing her face and we want somebody's conscience to be seared because our lives are forever from this point different.

what does a man seek in this world? a position or a throne? man seeks peace of mind and the fear of almighty God as long as one knows that theres a judgement day,he tries to keep his conscience dear and do what he can

What happened to him was shocking to the conscience.

We could tell they were male. They were big prints and we could see everywhere that they ran. I would like to have a few hours with whoever did it to teach them about respecting other people's property. I hope their conscience is against them for the rest of their life. I hope when they grow up and have a family they think why did I do that.

Act as you speak, speak as you feel. Do not play false to your own conscience by forcibly enslaving it and embarking on actions not approved by it.

Fill the World with Love. Love will warn you against advising another to do something which you are unwilling to do; your conscience will tell you that you are living in a lie!

rough contrivance to lift from the social conscience a burden that should not be either lifted or lightened in any way.

Sometimes my conscience tells me to vote against a certain policy or program, and I do, and everyone else votes for it and it passes. I'm going to work just as hard to make sure it's successful as I would had I approved it.

Actually, I thought I threw the ball decently. I just felt in good conscience I wasn't going to be able to turn it up to that next level. I'd say my velocity was anywhere from 92 to probably 96 mph. But that's not as consistent as I need to be to face the competition we're going to have. I couldn't in good conscience go out there and put myself into that situation.

Now, I can understand if out of conscience you take a principled stand and you would decide that you were so opposed to this that you would actually throw your medals. But to pretend to do so, I think that's very revealing.

No way. I don't think anybody who read the excerpts can in good conscience vote for the guy.

Ay, go to the grave of buried love and meditate! There settle the account with thy conscience for every past benefit unrequited - every past endearment unregarded, of that departed being, who can never, never, never return to be soothed by thy contr

That's what we needed. He has no conscience. And I don't care about it. Sometimes that's what we need, that kind of player.

A man's conscience and his judgement is the same thing; and as the judgement, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Rosa Parks is not just a national hero, she is the embodiment of our social and human conscience and the spark that lit the flame of liberty and equality for African Americans and minority groups in this country and around the globe.

The results show the conscience of the upper house. The prime minister should come to his senses. It will be bad for Japan if we do something like this over and over.

This goes to the core of what it means to be an American. Conscience is the most sacred of all property. Doctors, dentists, nurses and other health care workers should not be forced to violate their consciences.

The U.S. takes more care killing dogs than people. Just because a prisoner may have killed without care or conscience does not mean that the state should follow suit.

In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of Justice Department you have by what kind of civil rights division that you have.

In L.A., it's very hard to have some kind of conscience of some style out there. The weather's too hot; there's no seasons.

I've fixed hard problems of all kinds, civil rights and business problems. It's the stuff I like to do, and I'm good at it, as a matter of fact... and I never left my conscience at the door.

I'm voting my conscience on November 2; I'm voting for John Kerry.

I'm hoping and praying that whoever it was will have an attack of conscience and mail then back to the museum,

I'm more of a man than the lot of you put together. You don't have a conscience.

I'm so proud, but not at all surprised, that Marin County is rising to the challenge of doing something about Darfur, ... the conscience of the Congress when it comes to Africa.

I have no conscience, none, but I would not like to bring a soul into this world. When it sinned and when it suffered something like a dead hand would fall on me, -- ''You did it, you, for your own pleasure you created this thing! See your work!'' If it lived to be eighty it would always hang like a millstone round my neck, have the right to demand good from me, and curse me for its sorrow. A parent is only like to God: if his work turns out bad so much the worse for him; he dare not wash his hands of it. Time and years can never bring the day when you can say to your child, ''Soul, what have I to do with you?''

I love writing songs. One of the toughest things is structure; it just works when you use verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. And as soon as you become aware of that formula, you start to have a bad conscience when you write with that particular structure.

If you had any conscience at all, this wouldn't happen. We would find other sources of energy instead of trying to destroy our back yard.

I identify with your pain, ... We know you moved there based on your conscience and the decision of Israeli governments.

Everybody needs to decide this on their own, what their conscience dictates, what their hearts and minds tell them to do,

SYMBOLIC, adj. Pertaining to symbols and the use and interpretation of symbols.They say 'tis conscience feels compunction; I hold that that's the stomach's function, For of the sinner I have noted That when he's sinned he's somewhat bloated, Or ill some other ghastly fashion Within that bowel of compassion. True, I believe the only sinner Is he that eats a shabby dinner. You know how Adam with good reason, For eating apples out of season, Was ""cursed."" But that is all symbolic: The truth is, Adam had the colic.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Nothing short of a revolution will stop what has become a crisis of conscience and integrity for colleges and universities in this country,

Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.

On behalf of the president of the United States, before you vote to impeach and remove the president, read the defense of the president ... and then be guided by your conscience and your judgment in the national interest.

I want to know how you can apologize to these people in good conscience when you know that every day ... by selling your product, you're creating new victims?

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life

Consumers increasingly have a conscience and are increasingly shifting to competitors.

It sounds to me like he just has a guilty conscience.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

The Conscience of a Liberal, Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda.

The conscience of our nation is up for grabs.