Top 1200 Clear Conscience Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

The reason my food bank is vegan is because I can't pay for animal products in good conscience.

The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.

I have the kind of conscience that it doesn't feel right if I watch other people suffer and I do nothing about it.

One thing that has become clear over the last several days is that we no longer have 135 choices to make. It's really one choice likely to emerge from question number two, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and that leaves the voters with a clear choice. They can retain Gray Davis as governor, or they can elect Arnold Schwarzenegger and his crew from Pete Wilson to run the governor's office.

The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters!

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'

When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call.

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

Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

The Islamic Revolution of Iran is honourable for it is the cry which has its origin in Ayatollah Khomeini's conscience.

We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not a case of conscience.

A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!'

Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.

I've been really clear about this. If you want to be president, you should run for president. We should select our nominee from among the people who are running for president. Clear and simple. So no, I am not going to be the president. I am not going to be the nominee.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil 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.

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

The good part of writing is where it gets out of your control and turns into something else. You look at it and think "Whoa, where did that come from? That wasn't what I meant to write, but it's more interesting than what I was intending. Which part of my subconscious or my experience did that come from?" Often the answer isn't clear, and often the line between fiction and fact isn't clear, either.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.

We often talk about this VAR, this new technology. It's very important new technology. On the pitch maybe it's not clear. You cannot see... maybe from another angle in front of the TV it's much more clear. But it's, as always, football. It's easy to be much more polemic about this and that.

Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.

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.

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

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

Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness. All forms of misery are heralded by a frame of mind that must become immediately recognizable if we are ever to gain mastery in happiness...Take the time to look in your heart and be clear. Walk through life being clear. Practice doing each thing in peace.

If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.

It's really important to like what you're wearing. It's pretty clear when I don't like what I'm wearing, and it's pretty clear if you got dressed for other people. Even if you're not looking the the best you can, or maybe your outfit isn't spot on, if it looks like you got dressed and you like it, you'll probably look cool anyway.

Since taking office, I've made it clear that the United States was prepared to begin a new chapter of engagement with the Islamic Republic of Iran. We offered the Iranian government a clear choice. It could fulfill its international obligations and realize greater security, deeper economic and political integration with the world, and a better future for all Iranians. Or it could continue to flout its responsibilities and face even more pressure and isolation.

The president Donald Trump, unlike previous administrations, has made a real commitment. That is the denuclearization of the peninsula is the mandate. That is what we are going to achieve. The president has made very clear that we're going to do everything we can to do that in a way that doesn't involve military action but has equally made clear that we're not going to stand for allowing Kim Jong-un to hold Los Angeles, or Denver, or New York at risk.

If we clear the air of the fog of catchwords which surround the conduct of war, and grasp that in the human will lies the source and mainspring of all conflict, as of all other activities of man's life, it becomes clear that our object in war can only be attained by the subjugation of the opposing will. All acts, such as defeat in the field, propaganda, blockade, diplomacy, or attack on the centres of government and population, are seen to be but means to that end.

Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the Administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle.

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

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

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

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.

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

I've never been a fan of sociopaths who have no conscience. That scares me because they're capable of anything.

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what I mean.

OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?