Conscience
Villains with a conscience have this sad realization of who they are, and the monster they’ve become – there’s a sense of regret. So at the end of these movies there’s a dramatic resonance that really stays with the audience
Author: Thomas Haden ChurchTopics: Acceptance, Audience, Conscience, Dramatic, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Realization, Regret, Villain
It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience
Author: Thomas BrooksTopics: Conscience, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful
Power,” he wrote, “always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws. Our passions, ambitions, avarice, love and resentment, etc., possess so much metaphysical subtlety and so much overpowering eloquence that they insinuate themselves into the understanding and the conscience and convert both to their party.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Comprehension, Conscience, Party, Power, Resentment, Service, Understanding
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Assuming, Conscience, Famous, Intolerance, Liberty, Opposites, Toleration
The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated by their own minds cannot follow the dictates of other men: It is unalienable also, because what is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Church, Conscience, Deism, Famous, Freedom, Freedom of conscience, Freedom of religion, Separation, States, Virginia
The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Civil right, Conscience, Equal rights, Famous, Manner, Religious belief, Worships
Conscience is the most sacred of all property.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Conscience, Famous, Property, Sacred
A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
Author: Jane AustenTopics: Conscience, Famous, Meaningful
Weedon Scott had set himself the task of redeeming White Fang – or rather, of redeeming mankind from the wrong it had done White Fang. It was a matter of principle and conscience. He felt that the ill done White Fang was a debt incurred by man and that it must be paid.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Conscience, Done, Mankind, Matter
I have a clear conscience and never let success get to my head. You know that when you achieve something, you can change the way you are very easily.
Author: Thiago SilvaTopics: Achieve, Change, Conscience, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Positive, Success
I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.
Author: Kage BakerTopics: Coat, Conscience, Cutting, Famous, Fashion
Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Conscience, Famous, God, Interpret, Life, Light, Lives, Meaningful
Sunday school: a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Children, Conscience, Evil, Famous, Parents, Prison, School, Sunday, Theology
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Conscience, Famous
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Conscience, Ethics, Humor, Inner-voice
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Acceptance, Always, Chance, Condition, Conscience, Contentment, Depends, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Freedom, Good, Greatest, Happiness, Health, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Occupation, Placed, Positive, Pursuit, Results
A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous
Author: Thomas HobbesTopics: Connection, Conscience, Erroneous, Error, Ethic, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Human Nature, Judgement, Morality, Perception, Reflection
Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
Topics: Being seductive, Being successful, Conscience, Famous, Free-enterprise, Freedom, Freedom of expression, Leads, Something, Something for nothing, Suffering, Suffers
What does your conscience say? — ‘You should become the person you are’.
Topics: Become, Becoming, Better person, Better-looking, Conscience, conscious mind, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Seeing
You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.
Author: Robert E. LeeTopics: Approving, Conscience, Famous, Pleasure, Practice
Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.
Author: G. Willow WilsonTopics: Conscience, Famous, Man, Measure
The greatest want of the world is the want of men – men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
Author: Ellen G. WhiteTopics: Conscience, Duty, Fall, Famous, Fear, Heaven, Honest, Inspirational, Meaningful, Men, Needle, Right, Soul, True, World
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Author: Eleanor RooseveltTopics: Avenged, Conscience, Famous, Grow, Human, Inspirational, Meaningful, Misery, Motivational, Prevent, Tender
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Author: Edmund BurkeTopics: Conscience, Famous, foothold, Gain, Good, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Need, People, Positive, Remain, Silent, Tyranny
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Author: Richard BachTopics: Carefully, Conscience, Famous, Honesty, Listen, Measure, Selfishness
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Author: Dante AlighieriTopics: Conscience, Famous, Meaningful
America means opportunity. It started that way. The early settlers came to the new world for the opportunity to worship in keeping with their conscience, and to build a future on the strength of their own initiative and hard work… They discovered a new life with freedom to achieve their individual goals.
Author: Neil ArmstrongTopics: Achieve, America, Build, Conscience, Discovered, Famous, Freedom, Future, Life, Meaningful, Opportunity, Strength, Work, Worships
Through pride, we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience, a still, small voice says to us, ‘Something is out of tune.
Author: Carl JungTopics: Average, Conscience, Deep, Deep affection, Famous, Fortune, Forward-looking, Life, Ourselves, Out of control, Pride, Small, Someday, Something, Still, Stillness, Voice
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious
Author: Carl JungTopics: Become, Becoming, Conscience, Consciousness, Darkness, Enlighten, Enlightenment, Imaginary, Imaginative idea, Lifelong Learning, Lifestyles, Light, Light a candle., Religious Images
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
Author: George EliotTopics: Alive, Characters, Conscience, Dogma, Famous, Inspirational, Mistake, Science, Scrupulous
It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.
Author: Martin LutherTopics: Conscience, Famous, Meaningful, Right, Safe
Every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
Author: Mark TwainTopics: Conscience, Diligently, Falsities, Famous, Meaningful, Self-Deception, Soothing
A person’s conscience ain’t got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.
Author: Mark TwainTopics: Conscience, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Person's, Sense
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Celestial fire, Conscience, Encourage, Famous, Inspirational, Labor, Mindful, Spark
Conscience accompanies every act with the comment: You should act differently, although its true sense is: You could be other than you are
Author: Arthur SchopenhauerTopics: Comments, Conscience, Different life, True, True Self
The roots of violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principles.
Author: Mahatma GandhiTopics: Character, Conscience, Famous, Humanity, Knowledge, Meaningful, Morality, Politics, Principles, Sacrifice, Science, Violence, Wealth, Work, Worships