Conscience Quotes - Page 21

• I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve to remind us that history's deepest tragedies concern not the great protagonists who set events in motion but the countless ordinary people who are caught up in those events and torn apart by their remorseless fury. I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Memories, Collective Memory

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• RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Water, Imagination, Novelists

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.187, 谷月社

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• Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we do because we want to.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Love, Inspire, Different

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• MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT THEIR CONSCIENCE. I CAN'T. TO ME CINEMA IS NOT JUST MY JOB: IT'S MY LIFE, AND EACH FILM IS AN ACT OF MY LIFE.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Jobs, Ideas

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• The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Atheist, Challenges, Wicked

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.164, Image

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• We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, Believe, America

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• Your constitution guarantees to every citizen, even the humblest, the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. It promises to all, religious freedom, the right to all to worship God beneath their own vine and fig tree, according to the dictates of their conscience. It guarantees to all the citizens of the several states the right to become citizens of any one of the states, and to enjoy all the rights and immunities of the citizens of the state of his adoption.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Religious, Freedom, America

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• No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. It is a suitable pledge of his fidelity and responsibility to his country; and creates upon his conscience a deep sense of duty, by an appeal, at once in the presence of God and man, to the most sacred and solemn sanctions which can operate upon the human mind.

  Joseph Story

  Country, Responsibility, Men

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.339

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• The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Law, Errors

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be more sacred, because they are bound, on the conscience by the religious sanctions of an oath. As metes and bounds of government, they transcend all other land-marks, because every public usurpation is an encroachment on the private right, not of one, but of all.

  James Madison

  Religious, Land, Government

  James Madison (1906). “The Writings of James Madison: 1790-1802”

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• MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes called, are the evidence with which his Creator has furnished him. ... The moral duties which exist between individual and individual in a state of nature, accompany them into a state of society ... their Maker not having released them from those duties on their forming themselves into a nation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Law, Feelings

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• It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to be done by were we in their circumstances; to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God. These are some of the laws of nature which every man in the world is bound to observe, and which whoever violates exposes himself to the resentment of mankind, the lashes of his own conscience, and the judgment of Heaven. This plainly shows that the highest state of liberty subjects us to the law of nature and the government of God.

  Samuel West

  Men, Law, Heaven

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• By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.

  William Penn

  Believe, Exercise, Men

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.11

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• Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

  George Eliot

  Truth, May, Knowledge Is Power

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2985, Delphi Classics

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• Do not be irritated either with those who sin or those who offend; do not have a passion for noticing every sin in your neighbour, and for judging him, as we are in the habit of doing. Everyone shall give an answer to God for himself. Everyone has a conscience; everyone hears God's Word, and knows God's Will either from books or from conversation with other people. Especially do not look with evil intention upon the sins of your elders, which do not regard you; "to his own master he standeth or falleth." Correct your own sins, amend your own life.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Book, Passion

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• A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Courage, Men, Brave

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.577

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• In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

  Mark Twain

  Support, Age, Charity

  Mark Twain (1903). “The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories”, p.227, Library of Alexandria

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• My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dominion, Ends

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• Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Heart, Thee, Ifs

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.254, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Tongue, Glory

  Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.82, Cambridge University Press

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• Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.

  Tryon Edwards

  Safe, Our Actions, Judgment

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.231, Ravenio Books

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• We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

  Tryon Edwards

  Evil, Honest, Mistaken

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.46

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• Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Doe, Taught, Ought

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• But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?

  Muhammad Asad

  Men, Foolish, Ifs

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• As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months. How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Home, Years

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