I think that the idea of sharing is something that has been lost in our social conscience, and we need to re-think that. We need to learn a new way.
Disco music in the ’70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
The beauty of the tea party movement is that it is independent and thus a true check and balance of the Republican and Democrat parties. It’s not a pawn of the GOP, thus untouchable in criticism of the Democrats – I view it as an unattached conscience of the Republican party.
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
All I can say is that you have to live with your conscience at the end of your life, and it’s the only thing that you have that belongs to yourself and nobody else.
My poet’s heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.
When you treat everyone on the sets with respect, it keeps the workspace free of tension. Your conscience is clear, and that reflects on the camera.
What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don’t have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man’s conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author’s notes to keep my conscience clear.
While the federal government is committed to paying 100% of the cost of new people in Medicaid, I cannot, in good conscience, deny the uninsured access to care.
What a man calls his ‘conscience’ is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
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.
Unless the character is suffering from tremendous self doubt or pangs of conscience, you have to get morally behind the character and their values.
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.
Our goal of poverty eradication and of inclusive growth that embraces the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society can be achieved when our actions are guided by a social conscience and are not devoid of sensitivity.
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
You’re either a person with a conscience, or you’re not. I think I’ve got quite a fine conscience.
Go by your own conscience.
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
If we’re picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a ‘new’ Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
I really can’t imagine how anyone could, in good conscience, oppose the proposition that the states should be able to deny the status of marriage to same-sex unions.
Someone once asked, ‘What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?’ The answer is, ‘I have a conscience and he doesn’t.’
My conscience is informed by reason. It’s like Kant’s categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.
Once you’re looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot, in all conscience, accept any form of prejudice.
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.
The appeal to the white man’s pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It’s whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.
Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I’m teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashion.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
I am perfectly clear in my mind and in my conscience in respect of freedom of religious principles and beliefs.
No one should be forced to violate one’s conscience, nor should anyone be forced out of service of the common good because there are some things their conscience tells them they cannot do.
I have only ever followed my conscience.
Revolutions are of no us;, it is necessary to work on transforming the brain: on sowing a different knowledge/awareness, on creating a new conscience, that is like a magic box full of brains.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Whoever has witnessed another’s ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
President Reagan likes to say Uncle Sam is a kindly old man with a spine of steel, and that he is. But I want to see Uncle Sam as well with a mind and with a heart and with a soul and a conscience.
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.
One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn’t live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they’ve been brutalized for so long.
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
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.
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
My conscience is clear.
There’s no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.
Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.
People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.
A satellite has no conscience.
No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We’re not just service providers.
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
Prince was unapologetically different, and he made it okay for his fans to be different and to celebrate their individuality. His social conscience challenged us to look deeper than the skin color of our neighbors.
There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
