Conscience Quotes

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

Conscience is often our most defining feature.

Pain = regret of the past projected into potential negative futures. Otherwise it's just sensation. Being present = peace.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Conscience—the only incorruptible thing about us.

Conscience—the only incorruptible thing about us.

Conscience avaunt, Richard's himself again.

I can and will not retract, for it is neither safe nor wise to do anything against conscience. Here I stand. I can do no
other. God help me.

What does reason know? Reasons knows only what it has managed to learn, while human nature acts as an entire whole, with everything that is in it, consciously and unconsciously, and though it lies, still it lives.

I have no conscience, Adolf Hitler is my conscience.

Certainly, if I am obliged to bring religion into after-dinner toasts, (which indeed does not seem quite the thing) I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

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