There's so few people in this town with a conscience.
He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
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.
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.
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.
To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
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 don't want to be a dictator, because it is contrary to my own conscience. I am a democrat, but I don't desire democratic liberalism. On the contrary, I want a guided democracy... I have a conception of my own, which I will put at the disposal of the party leaders if required.
I've fixed hard problems of all kinds, civil rights and business problems. It's the stuff I like to do, and I'm good at it, as a matter of fact... and I never left my conscience at the door.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.
It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality, and conscience.
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.
I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.
I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
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.
A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.
My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework.
I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.
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.
The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
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.
I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.
If you're a representative, you listen to your constituents, and then you go vote their conscience. You don't go vote your special interest buddies' interest and then come back and justify it.
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.
You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There's not one part that He doesn't want to make completely whole.
America is the world's engine but also its conscience. We are the petri dish of diversity and inclusiveness.
I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.
Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.
Obviously everybody is accountable for their own actions, and everybody has to make judgments based on their own conscience as to whether or not they believe what they were doing is right or wrong.
Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.
