Top 1200 Clear Conscience Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.

We are posing two very clear questions. The first is: Did the Holocaust actually take place? You answer this question in the affirmative. So, the second question is: Whose fault was it? The answer to that has to be found in Europe and not in Palestine. It is perfectly clear: If the Holocaust took place in Europe, one also has to find the answer to it in Europe.

Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

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

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

One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.

It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but also because heavy bodies forcibly thrown quite straight upward return to the point from which they started, even if they are thrown to an infinite distance. From these considerations then it is clear that the earth does not move and does not lie elsewhere than at the centre.

Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.

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.

Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.

One dictionary defines denouement as "a final part in which everything is made clear and no questions or surprises remain." By that definition, it is exactly the wrong word to describe this chapter. This chapter will make nothing clear; it will raise many questions; and it may even contain a surprise or two. But I say we call it the denouement anyway because the words sounds so sophisticated and French.

Being a man with a conscience I simply felt that I had to do something - anything! - about the world we live in.

I love Lou Reed because his voice sounds like your inner conscience.

My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

God uses our conscience. He knows we can only start over when we are not condemning ourselves anymore.

The threat from Iran is, of course, their stated objective to destroy our strong ally Israel. That's a threat, a serious threat. It's a threat to world peace; it's a threat, in essence, to a strong alliance. I made it clear, I'll make it clear again, that we will use military might to protect our ally, Israel.

Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.

Life is not just about profit and loss. One should follow one's conscience and listen to the voice of one's soul.

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

O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.

I learned that working out gives me a space to get clear. It's not just about the body. It gives me space to process things and get clear in my mind about decisions and things I want to do.

Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.

Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul .... and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul, Lack one lacks both .... and the unseen is proved by the seen Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. To elaborate is no avail .... Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things.

The Conscience Protection Act would ensure no one is coerced to participate in abortions or to provide abortion coverage.

Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.

We are leaving the E.U. I accept that. But I made a decision I was never again going to vote against my conscience, and that stands.

The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

I'm going to be very clear in everything we do. I believe the special relationship is important to us, it's important more widely across Europe and the world. But I will also be very clear in the decisions I take and the conversations I have about UK interests. I'm not going to say anything different to Donald Trump to what I'm saying to you in terms of UK interests and where those lie.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.

But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?

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