Famous Quotes & Sayings

Now that Roberts' nomination has been reported out of committee, we strongly urge senators to vote their conscience and reject his nomination when it reaches the floor. The stakes are too high and the consequences too great to gamble.

PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

She's one of those girls that when she's on, you better watch out. She doesn't have much of a conscience when she's shooting like that.

Marian Edelman

The planned execution of Mr. Williams will leave a permanent scar on the conscience of the state of Georgia, on your administration and on our nation.

Francois Rabelais

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

Robert Schenkkan

Abigail is the conscience of the piece. Her father has tricked Jabez into an impossible situation. He can't marry Abigail unless ... well, I don't want to give too much away, here.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Scott Riggs

It sounds to me like he just has a guilty conscience.

Consumers increasingly have a conscience and are increasingly shifting to competitors.

Mark Rydell

For 30 years he was the conscience of Hollywood,

The conscience of our nation is up for grabs.

Bill Schneider

The Conscience of a Liberal, Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Elizabeth Stanton

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

Richard Gephardt

Everybody needs to decide this on their own, what their conscience dictates, what their hearts and minds tell them to do,

Ozzie Guillen

It was one lady and six guys sitting next to me, and we were just playing around all game. And (if) they take it the wrong way, that's fine. I know the last couple of days I slept pretty good about it because I don't have anything in my conscience to make me feel guilty about it.

We must be the conscience of our nation. We've got to help somebody. That's what Dr. King would want us to do.

We want you to keep seeing her face and we want somebody's conscience to be seared because our lives are forever from this point different.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Oscar Wilde

There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.

Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

John Walsh

We can't use the eucharist as a time . . . to judge a person's conscience by refusing them communion.

What happened to him was shocking to the conscience.

Ernest Gaines

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

H. L. Mencken

Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness

Karen Hughes

Now, I can understand if out of conscience you take a principled stand and you would decide that you were so opposed to this that you would actually throw your medals. But to pretend to do so, I think that's very revealing.

The sting of conscience teacheth one to sting.

Thomas Hobbes

A man's conscience and his judgement is the same thing; and as the judgement, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

This man has no soul; he has no conscience.

John Bolton

This is the kind of development that I think shocks our conscience in America, to see the humanitarian impulse so cynically manipulated,

Isaac Asimov

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.