We've got to understand that the ages of zero to three are the most formative years of a person's life, the time they learn the concept of reward and punishment and develop a conscience, and that 50 percent of all learned human response is learned in the first year of life.
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.
If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'
Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.
There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
I believe you have to nurture your conscience.
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.
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.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
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 evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
I have a conscience about my work and try to turn out a good piece of craftsmanship.
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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.
Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
