Top 275 Conscience Quotes

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation’s conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

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

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

We are made stronger by differences of opinion on faith and conscience.

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

We know enough to stand here in truth – facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims’ families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.

I love Lou Reed because his voice sounds like your inner conscience.

Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.

Reasonable ideas which find their sanction in the conscience of the righteous do not die; they are consequently realities and active forces, but they are so only to the extent that those who profess them know how to turn them to account.

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration – but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.

I have a clear conscience.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

The New England conscience doesn’t keep you from doing what you shouldn’t – it just keeps you from enjoying it.

If you look into the religions, they have this deep idea of human dignity and the source of dignity being conscience.

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.

There’s no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

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

Advertisers rip out one another’s conscience to control the spending impulses of males ages 18 to 34, who now have the cyber world at their fingertips. They want more.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn’t a profession, it’s a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you’re all set.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

I belong to the political party that generally fits my philosophical beliefs, but I reserve the right to vote my conscience after careful deliberation. My voting record reflects this.

I have a moral conscience that is real central.

Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can’t fail if you do that.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myself. That took some work, but because of it I can now say ‘no’ to other people with a clear conscience.

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.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

People of conscience are compelled to oppose racism, sexism, and intolerance of people with different sexual identities and orientation wherever and whenever they see it.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

I’ve never been a fan of sociopaths who have no conscience. That scares me because they’re capable of anything.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they’ll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.

Maybe I’ll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they’re based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

Man without conscience is wilder and more dangerous than any beast.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

I don’t believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

We try to do music with a conscience. We’d never look back and say, ‘We are embarrassed or ashamed.’ It paid off for us.

Conscience is God present in man.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

My conscience won’t allow me to do films I thought were bad but were going to make money.

A man’s conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn’t do – but it does not keep him from doing it.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.

The world in the ’90s had seemed somewhat stable. There was talk of the end of history, a calm consensus around where we were all going. Consumer capitalism with some sort of social conscience. Then 9/11 happened, and that illusion was blown out of the water.

If you’ve ever liked an artist or someone who then does something or is accused of something extremely corrupt, and your moral conscience won’t allow you to accept that artist, the truth is then that creates a void in your life. Because then something you loved was taken from you.

We’re telling the story of ‘Daredevil’. In this aspect, the storylines accentuate the sociopathic tendencies in her. The writers wanted to highlight that Elektra is quite manipulative and doesn’t seem to have a conscience.