Quotes on Conscience

Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

Conviction is not merely an opinion. It is something rooted so deeply in the conscience that to change a conviction would be to change the very essence of who you are.

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.

OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought

Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we do because we want to.

It is contrary to our principles to multiply organizations, since, in all conscience, there are enough of them. And when organizations are created they need individuals to look after them.