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.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

If you cannot give God glory for something, you should not do it. If a person is not fully persuaded that an activity is pleasing to God, then it is a sin: “whatsoever is not...

Rationalization is foreplay with one’s conscience.

What we now call “morality” was evolved – as nearly all social and physical human attributes were – to aid us in survival and, ultimately, reproduction. This morality requires only that we be guided by...

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience. But a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won’t let me get away with things.

Mine isn’t going to grow back.

The only thing worth listening to is your conscience.

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

Yet Conscience is a nobleman, the best in us, and a friend.

But it is obvious that absurdism hereby admits that human life is the only necessary good since it is precisely life that makes this encounter possible and since, without life, the absurdist wager would have...

The Greatest Companionship you have is your Mind… Your Conscience Mind… The one which talks to you ! The only thing you need to make sure is that; it’s positive !

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Good…if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

I’m more of a man than the lot of you put together. You don’t have a conscience.

If I have to die either for religion or atheism I would prefer atheism, since my conscience will respect my rational decision.

But the insane need to do it was stronger than the sense of whether it was a wrong or right thing to do.

…freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled – we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others…

Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

Between you and you, let there be no secrets. ~T.F. Hodge

Quand la vérité est remplacée par le silence, le silence est un mensonge

No,” said Father. “Just do the best you can and don’t let it worry you. In that way you’ll have a clear conscience and a tranquil heart.

A person’s reputation is like a glass panel that remains protected till it remains fitted in the strong and durable frame of the good character.

This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to be good to yourself and others? Do you care about other people, always,...

We’re going to stand firm for the principle that religious freedom and freedom of religious conscience need to be upheld, and we are hoping for a favorable resolution in this case.

The law’s a necessary evil–we canna be doing without it–but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience?

Don’t you think it’s good to serve your country?’ I asked. ‘No, I don’t,’ Mr Peterson said. ‘I think it’s good to serve your principles. And in the army you don’t get to pick and...

Whenever the conviction of God’s Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the...

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)

At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, planted her...

Until you guys own your own souls you don’t own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always, in all times and conditions, to seek the truth out and find it and...

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

SYMBOLIC, adj. Pertaining to symbols and the use and interpretation of symbols.They say ’tis conscience feels compunction; I hold that that’s the stomach’s function, For of the sinner I have noted That when he’s sinned...

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual...

C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls; the bridge that links the creature to the creator

The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief.

Conscience unlike a beard does not grow overnight. You have it or you don’t.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

I wasn’t trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at...

The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn’t.

Selfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character.

My religious conversion is not inspired by any material motive. This is hardly anything I cannot achieve even while remaining an Untouchable. There is no other feeling than that of a spiritual feeling underlying my...

Sometimes a woman’s love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn’t...

Does changing for the better absolve you of all the wicked shit you did before?No. March fills my head like a warm glow. Instead you receive the twin delights of guilt and regret.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.