Quotes About Conscience

I am perfectly clear in my mind and in my conscience in respect of freedom of religious principles and beliefs.

More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience correctly.

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

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.

Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things... My conscience is clear.

America is the world's engine but also its conscience. We are the petri dish of diversity and inclusiveness.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

People in startup-land live inside it. They see themselves as really good people even when they're doing something that's very bad. There's a huge disconnect from reality in the tech world.

If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.

I would not allow CIA to undertake activity that is immoral, even if it is technically legal.

A satellite has no conscience.

There's a science to brain development. The brains of teenage boys are crowded with impulse and adrenaline. By the time they hit their 20s, their brains are dominated by conscience and reason.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

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.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

I hope you make those decisions because you feel they are the right thing to do, not because of peer pressure or because you're trying to fit in.

Let us fast, then—whenever we see fit, and as strenuously as we should. But having gotten that exercise out of the way, let us eat. Festally, first of all, for life without occasions is not worth living. But ferially, too, for life is so much more than occasions, and its grand ordinariness must never go unsavored. But both ways let us eat with a glad good will, and with a conscience formed by considerations of excellence, not by fear of Ghosts.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

His brain and his heart knew this, but he couldn't stop himself, and the razor of his conscience lent the undeniable thrill of pain to the act.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

What do you do,' he said, 'if you devote your life to discovering criminals, and it gradually occurs to you that the real criminals are the people you work for? What do you do when everyone tells you not to worry, you can't do anything about it, it was a long time ago?' She was looking at him in a different way. 'I suppose you go crazy.' 'Or worse. Sane.