In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.
Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
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 all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.
There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
I never had the guts to go to Calais. I didn’t see for myself the conditions people were living in, or hear their stories firsthand. That doesn’t sit well with my conscience.
The fact that we were encouraged to follow our conscience and not to follow the crowds – that’s something I really miss. On the other hand, there were things that drove me nuts in the ’60s. There was an aspect of the hippie movement that everyone is an artist, which is lethal.
I try not to eat meat, but I’m not saying that I’m vegetarian or vegan. I love animals, so I try and eat with a conscience.
Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon the duty that each person has to contribute willingly to the common good.
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
The media doesn’t need a conscience; people need consciences.
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.
I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty’s ‘soft’ approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.
The 21st century – and the atheists – needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.
Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
I have a huge and savage conscience that won’t let me get away with things.
I don’t run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.
We were a country band with a social conscience.
There’s so few people in this town with a conscience.
The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.
You and I must demonstrate love to our gay neighbors, of course, remembering that we are ultimately engaged in spiritual warfare. But we should boldly stand up when our rights as citizens and the demands of our conscience are threatened.
My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we’re not that involved.
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
I’m fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.
A heartsong doesn’t have to be a song in your heart. It doesn’t have to be talking about love and peace. It can just be your message. It can be your feeling. Some people might even call it a conscience, even though that’s not really what it is. It’s your message, what you feel like you need to do.
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
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.
There’s obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America’s unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom – not least freedom of conscience.
Look, I do spray flies, but I have a really big conscience.
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.
In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
My career strategy has never been the most important thing; my conscience is.
I won’t do roles that are dirty, full of double meaning dialogues and vulgar gestures. Though such roles had made me a star, my conscience was against doing such scenes.
But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.
Life is not just about profit and loss. One should follow one’s conscience and listen to the voice of one’s soul.
To put it mildly, nothing can be turned and worn inside out with greater ease than one’s notion of social justice, public conscience, a better future, etc.
I strongly oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. We must stand for the right of every American to practice their faith according to the dictates of their conscience, whether it be in the public square or in the workplace.
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
