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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.
According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.
There are people of conscience all over the world, famous leaders, as well as unsung heroes and 'sheroes,' who are carrying forward the nonviolent movement for freedom and human rights.
Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
In L.A., it's very hard to have some kind of conscience of some style out there. The weather's too hot; there's no seasons.
I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
Unless the character is suffering from tremendous self doubt or pangs of conscience, you have to get morally behind the character and their values.
Living life with a clear conscience is the fruit of a repentant heart and new life through Jesus Christ.
We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.
Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.
When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake.
There may be some tenderness in the conscience and yet the will be a very stone; and as long as the will stands out, there is no broken heart.
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
All I can say is that you have to live with your conscience at the end of your life, and it's the only thing that you have that belongs to yourself and nobody else.
The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of conscience, of thinking, of comprehending the universe.
My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.
Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.
Mind is the Soul speaking and Conscience is the Spirit speaking.
Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.
Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.
You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.
I promise by my conscience and honor to faithfully fulfill the obligations of the office of president of the government with loyalty to the King, and to keep and enforce the Constitution as the fundamental norm of the State.
Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.
Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily.
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.
The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.
What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.
Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.
Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?
A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
It's my own conscience that gets to me more so than anybody thinking about me. I think too much.
... conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience.
In 2010, I suggested that if you are a good Muslim with a good conscience, go and look for a better God, and I think that was juvenile of me.
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.
Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
I belong to the political party that generally fits my philosophical beliefs, but I reserve the right to vote my conscience after careful deliberation. My voting record reflects this.
We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven.
Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.
It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.
In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.
Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.
Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.
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.
The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.
In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.
Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.
