Top 180 Conscientious Objectors Quotes & Sayings

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.

At the vital point of truth, we all become a conscientious objector.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.

Periodically, 'The New York Times' runs a business news story lamenting how few women still make it to the top in the Wall Street boys' club. Could it be that women are choosing to be conscientious objectors in these wars of one against all?

I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'

To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.

A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.

Conscientious objection is an intrinsic part of being a soldier.

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.

The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.

I've never had a teenage rebellion; I'm not that type of person. I always work out my problems in a conscientious way.

Every conscientious husband and wife should measure their marriage by the unchanging standard of the principles found in God's Word.

Conscientious conservatism includes responding to the needs and struggles of Americans with a responsible and efficient government and incorporating outside organizations that want to invest in the American people.

I naturally eat well. I'm conscientious about what I'm eating.

It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.

You know, no matter what I am or what I do for a living, I'm still, you know, the husband and the dad and the protector of the house, and I have to be conscientious about that.

An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.

Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved!

I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.

Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

What I've learned over the years... judges are conscientious... not like lawyers, who give opinions.

A peaceful, moral and conscientious person excessively deserves to be respected!

I've always been conscientious and hardworking. I've never wasted time.

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.

I found draft resistors very conscientious, reasonable, and not fanatics.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

The most common objection to changes in public policy which would increase a user's control of housing at the expense of centralized institutions is that standards would be lowered as a result. The standards the objectors have in mind, however, are not something that cam be achieved with available resources, but, rather, represent the objector's own notion of what housing ought to be.

Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.

Some fans have a mistaken opinion of the average umpire. He is human, all reports to the contrary. Every fellow who is successful is conscientious to almost a fault.

Conscientious people are self-disciplined, hard workers who spend the least amount of time on Facebook.

We should clearly understand that only the voluntary and conscientious acceptance by a people of its guilt can ensure the healing of a nation. Unremitting reproaches from outside are counterproductive.

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

I know what having kids is like, and my kids are lovely, conscientious, and amazing.

Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.

Partiality, in the sense that objectors commonly use the word, is impossible in the sphere of grace. It can exist only in the sphere of justice, where the persons concerned have certain claims and rights.

I was a very conscientious student.

Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest.

I've never had a teenage rebellion, I'm not that type of person. I always work out my problems in a conscientious way.

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

... I have become a conscientious objector in the war between the sexes.

It sounds outright bland, but people here in Indiana want conscientious public servants who have deep convictions but are prepared to work across the aisle when possible.

Conscientious people like structure, so for them, a solution to immigration should be orderly, and a wall embodied that.

I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

I believe all conscientious actors feel the same way - that there is too much hurry-scurry in TV to permit a sufficient amount of rehearsal time.

My dad was a civil rights lawyer, and he was actually defending conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War.

I would describe myself as a "total conservative, a conscientious one."

Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

It isn't safe to go to the parks. Toxic chemicals ruin the air and water. There is vandalism, even crime, and conscientious park personnel are demoralized.