Conscience quotes

Discover powerful quotes about conscience to awaken your inner voice and guide you towards making moral choices. Explore profound insights from influential thinkers on ethics, integrity, and the importance of listening to your conscience. Let these words of wisdom inspire you to live a life aligned with your values and contribute to a more just and compassionate world.

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

- Charles Kuralt

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.

- Jerome K. Jerome

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

- Cal Thomas

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

- William Ames

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.

- Isaac Barrow

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.

- David Attenborough

To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience.

- Eli Khamarov

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

- Davy Crockett

Public opinion is a second conscience.

- William R. Alger

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

- Bono

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

- Paul Hindemith

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.

- Cleveland Amory

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

- Lord Chesterfield

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

- Matt Drudge

I have a clear conscience.

- Wilhelm Canaris

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

- Honore De Balzac

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.

- Joseph Conrad

I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.

- Tim McGraw

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

- Henry Taylor

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

- Leonardo da Vinci