Conscience Quotes

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

~ Paul Hindemith

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

~ Adam Smith

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

~ Ogden Nash

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

~ Robert Redford

Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.

~ Nazanin Boniadi

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

~ Saint Ambrose

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

~ Robert Hall

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

~ Mark Twain

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

~ Edmund Burke

Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.

~ Antonin Scalia

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

~ Martin Luther

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

~ Mark Twain

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?

~ José Rizal

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

~ Rutherford B. Hayes

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

~ George Sewell

While security of national leadership is of paramount significance, expenditure on permanent civil structures at the family home of the prime minister and chief minister from public exchequer will be a burden on their conscience.

~ Shehbaz Sharif

I vote my conscience first and my constituents next, regardless of the direction of our leadership.

~ Tom Graves

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.

~ Evo Morales

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved!

~ Marquis De Lafayette

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

~ Thomas S. Monson

I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.

~ Tim Mcgraw

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

~ Ian Mcewan

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

~ William Butler Yeats

A satellite has no conscience.

~ Edward R. Murrow

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

~ Andrew Jackson

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.

~ Joe Biden

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

~ Stokely Carmichael

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

~ William Godwin

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

~ Albert Camus

I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.

~ David Attenborough

A heartsong doesn't have to be a song in your heart. It doesn't have to be talking about love and peace. It can just be your message. It can be your feeling. Some people might even call it a conscience, even though that's not really what it is. It's your message, what you feel like you need to do.

~ Mattie Stepanek

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

~ Mary Wortley Montagu

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

~ Fidel Castro

A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference. There's no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don't have that mean streak in me. I don't play angry. It's not anger.

~ Ndamukong Suh

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

~ Martin Luther King

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

~ Walter Lippmann

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

~ Leo Tolstoy