Conscience Quotations | Page 3

The issue is mainly an issue that has to be resolved in the conscience of Mr. Fazio,

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.

I just didn't feel like I was ready yet. I didn't feel like I could, in good conscience, go out and try to push myself to that next level in early March. It's something that could turn out and I could hurt myself, and that's something I want to stay away from, because I want to go out there and do what's right for me and my future.

If the judge gets enough evidence to satisfy the judge's conscience that the crime was committed, then he's a goner. All the judge has to get is a feeling that Tate violated probation.

I just hope they have a conscience and turn themselves in before it gets any worse.

His conscience got the better of him. And he's prepared to let the law take its course.

His conscience got the better of him. He's feeling that the family next door needed closure. He feels that another person might have been unjustly prosecuted.

His conscience is clear. This is the price of fame.

came forward because his conscience told him it was the right thing to do. He was solely a witness telling the truth.

I promise, through my conscience and honor, to fulfill faithfully the obligations of the post of prime minister, with loyalty to the king, and to uphold the constitution as the fundamental law of the state, and to keep secret the deliberations of the council of ministers.

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

He's always told me that he prays for the victims every day and it bears on his conscience every waking moment.

These people are prisoners of conscience, imprisoned solely on account of their non-violent opinions and activities.

It was one lady and six guys sitting next to me, and we were just playing around all game. And (if) they take it the wrong way, that's fine. I know the last couple of days I slept pretty good about it because I don't have anything in my conscience to make me feel guilty about it.

It kept gnawing at him and gnawing at his conscience.

It's clear price gouging, ... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

The court's sentence contrasts with the principles of civil justice and is a worrying signal. It is a backward-looking ruling that strikes at ... the civil conscience of women and of the whole country.

The good conscience of the wicked rest on all the villainies they refrain form committing.

A guilty conscience is never able to hide from the intuitive.

a hero who carried the torch of justice at a time when there was a paralysis of conscience over responsibility for the Holocaust.

The conduct of the defendants shocks the conscience and demonstrates deliberate indifference to the rights, privileges and immunities of the Times Leader and the public.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.

These are not simple issues. These are the kinds of events that shock the conscience of humankind, but so far we have proven that we are not willing or capable of stopping them.

Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

For 30 years he was the conscience of Hollywood,

Eight weeks ago yesterday, Katrina made landfall. Eight weeks ago today, the levees broke. And eight weeks later, I cannot in good conscience join in cutting health care, when Congress has left the health care needs of Katrina's victims unaddressed.

You can't, in good conscience, ask volunteers to quickly do a major Web site overhaul and then ask them to consistently meet the large weekly demand for agenda, minutes, calendar and other updates, ... Municipalities invariably take over responsibility for their Web sites once the Web sites become larger.

You have a situation where any minister anywhere can claim, 'My conscience tells me I can sleep with 16-year-old girl outside my marriage vows,' and who's to question his conscience?

It was a way to throw a stumbling block in front of them. But it's really a technicality. I can't in good conscience tell them they can't. It's just not fair.

Abigail is the conscience of the piece. Her father has tricked Jabez into an impossible situation. He can't marry Abigail unless ... well, I don't want to give too much away, here.

There is very little recognition that the conscience of the woman is as important, let alone more important, than the conscience of the provider.

This man has no soul; he has no conscience.

This is the kind of development that I think shocks our conscience in America, to see the humanitarian impulse so cynically manipulated,

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

I confess I have been more choice and he hath left me to distinguish between the voice of my beloved and the voice of Moses, the voice of John the Baptist and the voice of antichrist, for all those voices are spoken of in scripture. Now if you do condemn me for speaking what in my conscience I know to be truth I must commit myself unto the Lord.

I could never in good conscience vote to allow something like this.

I could not in good conscience make a decision about the oil taxes without knowing the gas pipeline terms that have been agreed between the producers and the administration.

I cannot, in good conscience continue to serve alongside a fellow commissioner who remains silent in the face of such hate.

I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.

Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

Don't throw away your conscience.

The American conscience died with the Kennedys.

Conscience is the root of all true courage.

The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

Joe Paterno left this world with a clear conscience,

Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

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

When something weighs on your conscience, give it up.

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

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

Nature's hasty conscience.

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

The wounds of conscience always leave a scar.

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

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

Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.

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

I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.

It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

Don't go growing a conscience on me," I said. "I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.

Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out.

conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep ...

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

A clear conscience is the softest pillow in the world.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

There is no college for the conscience.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.

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

Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.

A sleeping pill will never take the place of a clear conscience.

Conscience is God's presence in humans.

Good conscience is the most valuable asset of all!

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.

A clere conscience is a sure carde.

The conscience of a people is their power.

And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void to offence toward God, and toward men.

Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.