Conscience Quotes - Page 26

• Conscience gets expensive, doesn't it?

  Saul

  Expensive

  "Better Call Saul". TV Series. Season 2, Episode 8, www.esquire.com. 2016.

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• I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

  Marguerite Young

  Strong, Believe, Political

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• For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

  John Amery

  Country, Fog, Years

  John Amery (2007). “John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe”

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• Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is held by the same tenure with all his other rights. If we recur to its origin, it is equally the gift of nature; if we weigh its importance, it cannot be less dear to us; if we consider the 'Declaration of those rights which pertain to the good people of Virginia, as the basis and foundation of government,' it is enumerated with equal solemnity, or rather studied emphasis.

  James Madison

  Exercise, Rights, Government

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature".

  Ian Gardner

  Spiritual, Mind, Human Nature

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• In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Wife, Carriages, Walks

  Thomas De Quincey (1867). “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. And analects from John Paul Richter ... New edition”, p.23

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• I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

  James Ussher

  World, May, Study

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• Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

  A. E. Housman

  Hair, Fists, Prison

  'Collected Poems' (1939) 'Additional Poems' no. 18

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• Human beings "belong" to some minor comity or enclave of faith at the expense of the clarity and autarkia of their intelligence and conscience, of course. "Belonging" is another way of saying: "capitulating to."

  Kenny Smith

  Independence, Way, Clarity

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• The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.

  Don DeLillo

  War, Men, Glasses

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• In a world of plenty, continued suffering is a terrible stain on our conscience. It is inexcusable that we not strive, with every resource at our disposal, to eliminate suffering.

  Kofi Annan

  Change, Suffering, World

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• So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.

  Robert Barclay

  Religious, Men, Umpires

  Robert Barclay (1850). “An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines”, p.230

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• Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom the scholar has, and part of that process is to state its results.

  Donald Kennedy

  Mean, Academic Freedom, Important

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• In restating this basic Christian doctrine, Benedict argues that it is not only for Christians alone. Others may not share the Christian faith in God, but the Christian proclamation that hope comes from within the person- in the realm of faith and conscience - is for them too. It offers an important protection against stifling and occasionally brutal social systems built on false hopes that come from outside the person, founded on political idealogies, economic models and social theories.

  Raymond J. de Souza

  Christian, Hope, Economic Models

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• In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Men, Rights

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1832). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.587

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• To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death -- these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Children, Men

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• As a Christian, you can enjoy life because your conscience is clear. You can enjoy life because you are secure within God's love.

  Rick Warren

  Love, Christian, Enjoy Life

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• And if you love the light, then you come to the light to be proved, and tried whether your works be wrought in God. But that which hates the light, turns from the light, and that shall be condemned by the light forever. And though you may turn from the light, where the unity is, and you may turn from the eternal truth; but from the witness of God in your consciences, (which he hath places in you, which beareth witness for the living God,) you can never fly; that shall pursue you wherever you go.

  Margaret Fell

  Hate, Light, Forever

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• The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.

  William Penn

  Spiritual, Men, Light

  William Penn (1875). “No Cross, No Crown: A Discourse Showing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ, and that the Denial of Self, and Daily Bearing of Christ's Cross, is the Alone Way to the Rest and Kingdom of God : to which are Added, the Living and Dying Testimonies of Many Persons of Fame and Learning, Both of Ancient and Modern Times, in Favour of this Treatise : in Two Parts”, p.34

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• The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts appreciate Christ. Thirsty souls are what Christ wants. He invites them: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Christ's benefits are so precious that He will dispense them only to those who need them and really desire them.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Law, Appreciate

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Christian, Soul, Mind

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2013). “Don Quixote of La Mancha (Full Text)/ Introductory analysis and literary poem by Atidem Aroha.”, p.610, Alejandro's Libros

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• The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption and pollution. The dirt and scum that has attached itself to our hearts and minds is agitated and revealed by both the workings of a guilty conscience and the devouring avarice of the enemy of our souls.The

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Soul, Mind

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• Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time?

  Lauren Zalaznick

  Motivation, Inspiration, Television

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• If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

  Antonin Scalia

  People, Looks, Useless

  "Scalia Slams 'Living Constitution' Theory", www.foxnews.com. March 14, 2005.

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• The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.

  Ida B. Wells

  Race, Law, Punishment

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2009). “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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