Whoever has witnessed another’s ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

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.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

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

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

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

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‚divine service.‘

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

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.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

‚Do you spell it with a ‚V‘ or a ‚W‘?‘ inquired the judge. ‚That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord‘.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.