Quotes of: Conscience Keyword

To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation

William Shakespeare

I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The moral conscience that so many thoughtless people have offended against and many more have rejected, is something that exists and has always existed. It was not an invention of the philosophers of the Quartenary, when the soul was little more than...

Jose Saramago

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

Confessions

The oppressed peoples of the earth are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to learn how to exercise political intelligence and action. Obviously, colonial arrogance is a long time dying.

Cinema

If somebody asks me what enlightenment is, I say that it is simply recovering conscience.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after, the event, not before, when it might be of some use.

Child of Storm

Duty and conscience were, for Theodora, attributes which belonged properly to Girl Scouts.

The Haunting of Hill House

Instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest forever, Thou didst choose all that is exceptional, vague and enigmatic.

The Brothers Karamazov

My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.

Blanche Lincoln

A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference. There's no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don't have that mean streak in me. I don't play angry. It's not anger.

Ndamukong Suh

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Ingmar Bergman

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

Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond, The. Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific.

The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.

Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts

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

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Something's still wrong--the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone's heart. A conscience that's seared.

Miranda Warning

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Joseph Conrad

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

Norman Rockwell

I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

Pol Pot

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

Lee H. Hamilton