Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, – conscience. (Rule from the Copy-book of Washington when a schoolboy)
Conscience Quotes
Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expedience asks the question, “Is it political?” Vanity asks, “Is it popular?” But conscience asks the question, “Is it right?” There comes a time when one must take a position that’s neither safe, nor political, nor popular, but he must make it because his conscience tells him that […]
Conscience: The still small voice that makes you feel still smaller.
While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the rights of conscience in others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to Him only in this case they are answerable.
A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice.
Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.
The roots of valid law… are, and can only be, within the individual conscience.
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. (Richard III)
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
