Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one’s duty to do, one feels something which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a pain at the...

Always listen to your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything. You discover your true faith when you start flowing with your conscience. After lessons, visions, and theories validate themselves to you, you begin to build faith in that hypothesis/feeling/idea that originated from your own heart and mind — not that of...

The stomach is the seat of all feeling. The heart is the seat of the conscience. The mind is the seat of the ego. Your body is the seat of the soul. When a man goes out in the night and looks up at the universe, he is observing a mirror of himself. The universe...

Just because a man is dressed in a clean white robe does not mean his heart and hands are clean. Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal. Never judge a man by his image. Images can be bought or produced by any Hollywood producer, marketing team or fleet of stylists. Even kids...

It’s time for everybody to start becoming conscious of their conscience.

Let us dedicate this new era to mothers around the world, and also to the mother of all mothers — Mother Earth. It is up to us to keep building bridges to bring the world closer together, and not destroy them to divide us further apart. We can pave new roads towards peace simply by...

Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations.

Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.

The only thing worth listening to is your conscience.

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories bind. . . . They are basic to who we are.A story composite personality which grows out of its community....

When the great ship containing the hopes and aspirations of the world, when the great ship freighted with mankind goes down in the night of death, chaos and disaster, I am willing to go down with the ship. I will not be guilty of the ineffable meanness of paddling away in some orthodox canoe. I...

Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges—have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law.Nothing could be more absurd. Long before these commandments were given there were codes of laws in India and Egypt—laws against murder, perjury, larceny, adultery and fraud. Such laws are as old as human society;...

Are you a man with a conscience, or just a shark who will die when you stop moving forward?

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice.

We must hide our integrity, like we hide our love.

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

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.”(Young India, 22 October 1925)

I cannot kill someone, he thought.

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was answerable.

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience’ sake, runs the risk of starving.

I’m not going to lose any sleep, … I still believe that he’s guilty. My conscience is clear.

Gamache watched the old poet. He knew what was looming behind the Mountain. What crushed all before it. The thing the Hermit most feared. The Mountain most feared.Conscience….Which is why, Gamache knew, it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got...

Don’t mistake dramatics for a conscience.

Simon Wiesenthal was the conscience of the Holocaust.

Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn’t hear a squeak out of it.

There’s something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don’t give a damn whether they’re getting what they want out of life or not, you can see they don’t even try to understand what we’re here for. They just don’t care.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.

Major, I do not know why God does the things He does, but I believe you have the same duty to God as you have always had: to follow the right path, to live your life with a clear conscience.

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known...

Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don’t. And the ones with one are divided into those who will act on their conscience and those who won’t. Those who will are, I’m afraid, the smallest category. They will *jeito*. It’s Brazilian...

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

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

Until you are conscious of your conscience, you are morally unconscious.

He voted his conscience, even when people made fun of him,

Atticus, you must be wrong.” “How’s that?” “Well, most folks seem to think they’re right and you’re wrong. . .” “They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions,” said Atticus, “but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that...

The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason which the employment of coercion necessarily destroys. The liberal has faith in the individual – faith that he can be persuaded by rational means to beliefs compatible with social good.

I have a hangover and a headache. It’s called my conscience.

Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.