Conscience

All actions are judged by the motive prompting them.

- Prophet Muhammad Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

- Patrick Henry Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Mahatma Gandhi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The nearest way to come at glory, is to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

- Benjamin Franklin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We are making these conscience decisions for our schools as well as the overall interpretation of our village.

- Jason Briscoe Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

- Oscar Wilde Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

- George Santayana Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape, ... John Johnson was one of these men.

- Barack Obama Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I wish it never happened, ... I wish this sad chapter wasn't opened, but you have to do your duty, whether it's pleasant or whether it's onerous, and I think America needs some reassurance that people do have principles and do have a conscience and are going to vote their principles and their conscience.

- Henry Hyde Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

- Mahatma Gandhi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

- R. Ambedkar Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A man asked Muhammad what was the mark whereby he might know the reality of his faith. Muhammad said, 'If thou derive pleasure from the good which thou hast performed and thou be grieved for the evil which thou hast committed, thou art a true believer.' The man said. 'In what doth a fault really consist' Muhammad said, 'when action pricketh thy conscience, forsake it.'

- Prophet Muhammad Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What other explanations could be given for the fact that our God is love, we are love, and this is a part of us because we are as divine as Love and God One of these explanations is that even in our conscience, beside the false cognitive and volitive, there is Love, affectivity, represented by the affective. This is why the Print left in the Mirror of Knowledge that is reflected determining the world of Knowledge cannot be creation, but an attribute of it, which is Love.This happens precisely because the entire world exists through us and in reference to us, humans, pieces of divinity. And the, if everything we have within us is nothing more than love, and our world is the image of Love that receives Destiny , then what a Print becoming an attribute of Creation can be, if not Love Of course, it cannot be anything else. Despite all that, why does the love within us for a person we have fallen in love with, for instance, disappears after a month, a year, a certain period of time Why this love does not last forever, except for books or novels with a smell of roses and eternity

- Sorin Cerin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length a quite conscience.

- Euripides Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

- William Faulkner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

- Henry James Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Arthur Erickson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

- John Calvin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We want our own people, people who will fight tooth and nail for our interest and secure privilege for the under-privileged people who will undo the wrongs done to our people people who will voice our grievances fearlessly people who can think, lead and act people with principles and character. Such people should be sent to the legislatures. We must send such people to Legislatures who will be slaves to none but remain free to their conscience and get our grievances redressed.

- R. Ambedkar Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.

- John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.

- Charles Lamb Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic' 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 because conscience tells one it is right.

- Martin King Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

- Robert South Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

- Dean William R. Inge Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes