I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.
I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.
We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend to the well-being of the people in general, especially the poor. Interestingly, for the interpretation of Hamlet, for example, he forbids even the thought of revenge. This is not the Calvin of myth, but when the Elizabethans read him there was no such myth, nor would there be now, if he were read.
A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.
My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.
A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.
What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.
The American conscience died with the Kennedys.
By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.
OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.
I think that the ideals of youth are fine, clear and unencumbered; and that the real art of living consists in keeping alive the conscience and sense of values we had when we were young.
In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.
Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.