Top 1200 Clear Conscience Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine.

Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

It comforts the adult conscience to remember that, amid history's grave injustices, there were still great lives.

We try to do music with a conscience. We'd never look back and say, 'We are embarrassed or ashamed.' It paid off for us.

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.

Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

...healing comes not from being loving but from being itself. It is not a case of being clear but of clear being. This healing is not about anything else but being itself. Nothing separate, no edges, nothing to limit healing. Entering, in moments, the realm of pure being, the gateless gate swings open- beyond life and death, our original face shines back at us.

Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact.

It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.

There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

When it becomes clear to us that prayer is a part of our daily program of work, it will also become clear to us that we must arrange our daily program in such a way that there is time also for this work, just as we set aside time for other necessary things, such as eating and dressing.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

It does not matter if you vote for the left or right, you are not an elephant or donkey. You are a truthful lion who stands only for your conscience.

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.

I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.

I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

Even after creating a budget and being more money conscience, it's still easy to overspend during the holidays.

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand - they only. Know this at last.

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

There wasn't a moment where I got into cars. It wasn't a conscience decision or something that came later, it was there since I was born. I just love it.

My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.

I have said there are three principles that should be followed. One, we should maintain the "one China" policy that every American president has articulated, including President Reagan. Secondly, we should make clear that we want a peaceful resolution. And three, Taiwan should not challenge that arrangement in a way that will provoke a conflict. Those are three perfectly clear principles. I haven't used any of the other slogans.

When it was seen that many of the wicked seemed quite untroubled by evil conscience ... then the idea of future suffering was advanced.

...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.

Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Oh but I'd pay anything to keep my conscience clean.I'm keeping my eyes on the the exit sign. Steady now.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

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

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.

Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience.

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.