Quotes: Conscience

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

Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

I have no bad conscience.