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

There is another life both for you and for me,’ said I. ‘If it be the will of God that we should sow in tears now, it is only that we may reap in joy...

Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain.

People in blind love throw away common sense, conscience and comedy from the life.

I couldn’t begin to tell you what terrible trigger for such insanity lies deep in my sub-conscious. Though no doubt some would say that, indeed, it may be some demon of conscience. A deeply buried...

É bom quando nossa consciência sofre grandes ferimentos, pois isso a torna mais sensível a cada estímulo. Penso que devemos ler apenas livros que nos ferem, que nos afligem. Se o livro que estamos lendo...

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson.

«In my opinion, it is you considerate, humane men, that are responsible for all the brutality and outrage wrought by these wretches; because, if it were not for your sanction and influence, the whole system...

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

That’s interesting,” Bitterblue said. “You think a conscience requires fear?

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unless you allow them. Nobody can tell you to do something wrong, unless you allow them. God...

There is no dharma greater than a word uttered by a man of conscience; there is no karma greater than a man listening to himself! Since an intention precedes action, it should be the reference...

Truth and love are my law and worship; Form and conscience my manifestation and guide; Nature and peace are my shelter and companion; Order is my attitude; Beauty and perfection are my attack.

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life’s test.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

The hated man is the result of his hater’s pride rather than his hater’s conscience.

Idolatry, like all sin, is devastating to the soul. It cuts us off from the comforts of grace, the peace of conscience, and the joy that is to be our strength.

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

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

Inquisitor Lorsen’s thin lip curled. “There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft of conscience. An utter absence of morality. You have no principle beyond the...

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

I’m voting my conscience on November 2; I’m voting for John Kerry.

Conscience is a man’s compass

He had a clear conscience. Never used it.

Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites,While bad girls slink along in their shame-Everyone stares at them, everyone blames.But those bad girls sleep soundly at night,Ne’er...

Svako ima svoj dug – reče Etna. Takav je život, Marija Baring. Dugovi i zaduživanja, obaveze, zahvalnost, plata… Nekome nešto učiniš. Možda i sebi? Jer zaista, plaćamo uvek sebi, ne nekome. Za sve što smo...

The softest pillow is a clean conscience.

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

When you become healthy, courageous, and hopeful, following your conscience becomes much easier. When people are healthy, courageous, and hopeful, it’s difficult to bend their mind and will. They will speak out what they believe,...

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...

It’s not about people believing the story. It’s about you knowing and holding it to be true.

I cannot kill someone, he thought.

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

That’s where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

In case you’re not bright enough to figure it out, there’s a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your phone. I lie, and your conscience stays clear.

A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.

Dabei wissen wir doch:Auch der Hass gegen die NiedrigkeitVerzerrt die Züge.Auch der Zorn über das UnrechtMacht die Stimme heiser. Ach, wirDie wir den Boden bereiten wollten für FreundlichkeitKonnten selber nicht freundlich sein.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean...

Pick the axe; chop off the anger; burn the pieces and bury the ashes. Anger kills before it is noticed. It travels faster to the destination to destroy long before conscience arrives to regret it!

Don’t question your conscience so much–it will get out of tune like a strummed piano. Keep it for great occasions.

At this point, we don’t feel that we could, in good conscience, charge them for data that might not be complete. But at least we are giving them the data that at this point, is...

Don’t mistake dramatics for a conscience.

If this inner and critical voice has kept you safe for many years as your inner voice of authority, you may end up not being able to hear the real voice of God.

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...

The conscience is a right mix of instinct, reason and culture. The conscience itself is not a truth but it has an ability to access the truth. But the very conscience is assembled only by...

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

PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

Every penny that has always been earned with integrity by a person to lead life with a real simplicity has only perhaps helped to serve Almighty & protect and preserve humanity in the society.