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Quotes About Conscience

Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
~ J. C. Macaulay
Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
~ Democritus
But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can't.
~ Heather Gudenkauf
I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.
~ Jimmy Carter
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
~ Edward R. Murrow
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
~ Mark Twain
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us
~ D. A. Carson
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
~ Brigham Young
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is a clear conscience.
~ Periander
Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Without freedom there can be no morality.
~ Carl Jung
While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.
~ Margaret Fuller
Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.
~ William Barclay
The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
~ Jack Kornfield
What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.
~ John Goodwin
Homo-voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.
~ George Weigel
Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
~ Nazanin Boniadi