Top 100 My Conscience Quotes
#1. I'd love to sign a contract for the soundtracks to every Wes Anderson movie, you know what I'm saying? Things like that, I have no spots on my conscience about.
Doseone
#2. I've fixed hard problems of all kinds, civil rights and business problems. It's the stuff I like to do, and I'm good at it, as a matter of fact ... and I never left my conscience at the door.
Deval Patrick
#3. 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
#4. I wanted to speak my conscience and have it matter.
Sue Monk Kidd
#5. I'm the first kid to write of hearts, lies, and friends, and I'm sorry my conscience called in sick again. I've got arrogance down to a science.
Pete Wentz
#6. I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
#7. My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!
Edward Dyer
#9. Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.
John Oldham
#11. I tried to cheer her up, and apparently succeeded in some degree, before the walk was over; but in the very act my conscience reproved me, knowing, as I did, that, sooner or later, the tie must be broken, and this was only nourishing false hopes and putting off the evil day.
Anne Bronte
#12. Abandon her? If only my duty or my conscience would let me. The galaxy would be better off, if you ask me. Who'd even know we were in the same pod? Except that I would know. And that would be enough.
Amie Kaufman
#13. Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
Anne Hutchinson
#14. My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death
Anne Rice
#15. My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.
Giulio Andreotti
#16. God, I hate feelings. Or I hate my conscience. The two are constantly at war
Colleen Hoover
#17. On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.
Maria Monk
#18. You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
Victor Hugo
#19. Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes.
Bob Dylan
#20. If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on... then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me.
Immanuel Kant
#21. He held the door open for me and I walked past him, leaving my conscience on the porch. It curled up next to my principles.
Janice Hardy
#22. Besides my conscience, my liver was the most abused part of my body.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#23. I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.
Matt Drudge
#24. I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.
Daniil Kharms
#25. You been mud wrestling..?' 'Only with my conscience.' 'Really? Who won?' 'Well, it was one of those rare occasions when violence really doesn't solve anything.
Iain M. Banks
#26. In actual practice, someone is regarded as being "too liberal" if his conscience permits something that my conscience does not permit.
Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.
#27. My conscience was going to give me trouble on this one.
That's the naggy little person who lives in your brain and makes you feel guilty about stuff.
Man, I hate that guy sometimes.
Katherine Applegate
#28. I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#29. It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.
Martin Luther
#31. He shrugged, ... my conscience rests easiest if I do only what I see as best in the moment ...
Anihyr Moonstar
#32. My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.
Alannah Myles
#33. My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.
David Sedaris
#34. I must do what my conscience bids. I have borne long with self-reproach that would have roused any mind less torpid and cowardly than mine.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#35. Was I right?" she asked him. "Was I right to make a stand against what I believed to be wrong? Even though many ills have come from it? I have been asking myself this a lot lately. I must be quiet in my conscience.
Alison Weir
#36. My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
William Penn
#37. Master, don't kill me. Let me live - punish me - torture me - but let me live. I can't face God with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands.
Dwight Frye
#38. You are my conscience. You have ever been, James Carstairs.
Cassandra Clare
#39. I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Anne Frank
#40. As you know I am not of Barsoom; your ways are not my ways, and I can only act in the future as I have in the past, in accordance with the dictates of my conscience and guided by the standards of mine own people.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#41. I am not interested in standing for what I believe in, but in standing for the truth. I and my conscience are liars. God's law is truth.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#42. My conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.
Jeff Lindsay
#43. My heart is my temple and with it I can see and hear Truth. My heart is my conscience and Truth is God.
Suzy Kassem
#44. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree;
Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree,
Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!
William Shakespeare
#45. If you love me, you will save yourself the now. Do not so willingly put your death on my conscience." As
J.R. Ward
#46. If you wish to tell me what crime I have committed, explain to me in what a crime consists. For as my conscience does not accuse me, I aver that I am not a criminal.
Alexandre Dumas
#47. I won't lay down my principles for any kind of recognition or any kind of position or trying to be more famous. It's just not in me. I'd rather be a man. And then to have all this crazy stuff on my conscience.
Ice Cube
#48. There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.
Agatha Christie
#49. In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.
Michel De Montaigne
#50. For the first time in some years, I didn't care what Father said to me, even though I knew that by the end of the day my conscience would probably win out and I would end up apologizing to him as well.
M.L. LeGette
#51. Don't tell me your name. It's likely to awaken my conscience, and that's the last thing we want.
Julia Quinn
#52. I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my judgment, and according to my conscience. If she approves, well and good. If she does not, or wishes any one to take my place, I am ready to vacate. We are even.
John C. Calhoun
#53. When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience.
Robert Jenkins
#55. One time I considered making a video game about my life where people control a character called 'Zach Braff' and run around being awesome. Then I realized that getting to pretend to be me would be like shooting up heroin for anyone who played it, and I don't want that on my conscience.
Zach Braff
#56. Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#57. Perhaps this is what I have always wished for since that day. The loss and destruction of all. That's right, one must destroy before creating. In that case, if my conscience becomes a hindrance to me, then I will simply erase it. I have no other choice but to move forward
Lelouch Vi Britannia
#58. And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.
Diana Wynne Jones
#59. Megan's deception is another hook on which I can hang my conscience.
Jenny Lloyd
#60. When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
Jerry West
#61. I'm not going to faint at the sight of your butt,' she said. 'Ya might, and I don't want that on my conscience,' he said, tossing the jeans aside.
Jana Oliver
#62. Color is nothing, I do not even notice it, I know only one thing, which is the purity of my conscience and the whiteness of my soul.
Frantz Fanon
#63. Bright Side wasn't only my best friend; she was like my other half ... the other half of my brain, the other half of my conscience, the other half of my sense of humor, the other half of my creativity, the other half of my heart.
Kim Holden
#64. The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.
Daniel Webster
#66. I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.
Adolf Eichmann
#67. I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me ... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.
David Crockett
#68. 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.
Kami Garcia
#69. I wasn't vegetarian yet -- I was young and my conscience still under construction. (Kelly Johnson)
Dee Clark
#70. The question stayed with me every day, through every class, through every Op. I felt its teeth tighten around the back of my neck each time I was dismissed without a second look; it had locked it's jaws and wouldn't let me or my conscience go.
Alexandra Bracken
#71. It is often noted, for instance, that Shakespeare's plays are full of ocean metaphors ("take arms against a sea of troubles," "an ocean of salt tears," "wild sea of my conscience") and that every one of his plays has at least one reference to the sea in it somewhere.
Bill Bryson
#72. When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it consciously under the blood of Christ.
Francis Schaeffer
#73. My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.
John McCain
#74. The entire perks that I need are to let me do my job with full honesty to my conscience.
Amit Abraham
#75. I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of God's Word against my conscience, nor would do this day, if all that is in earth, whether it be honor, pleasure, or riches, might be given me.
William Tyndale
#76. Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things ... My conscience is clear.
Johannes Heesters
#77. If my conscience had been a person at that moment, I might have strangled him.
Elizabeth Kostova
#78. I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.
Anita Hill
#79. My conscience doesnt bother me. I have no conscience. I believe the whole human race should be exterminated. I'll do my best to do it every chance i get
Carl Panzram
#80. I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem.
Pol Pot
#81. And on my conscience," he said, "I will for ever bear the weight of all those men who died in a hopeless cause. Two thousand against five thousand? How can 1 justify leading so few against so many?"
"You know how."
"So I can be king?"
"So that we are not slaves in our own land," I said.
Bernard Cornwell
#82. Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me. The guitar is my conscience, too - whenever I've lost my way, it's brought me back to center; whenever I forget, it reminds me why I'm here.
Slash, Anthony Bozza
#83. Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.
Donald Cargill
#84. You will be my conscience, and I will be your shame.
Anne Mallory
#85. I wondered when exactly I had exchanged my conscience for fearful obedience.
Glenn Beck
#86. Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ's sake.
John Bunyan
#87. When I'm alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call.
LL Cool J
#88. I disliked promises on principle because my conscience made me keep them
Robin McKinley
#89. I wanted to let my conscience go, and see how deep I fall.
I wanted to let the devil take over, and see if I survive.
I love you, Mriga. And for you, I will die.
Tonight.
Prashant Chopra
#90. My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lot,That lies too high for base contempt,Too low for envy's shot.
Robert Southwell
#91. The signs of the old flame, I know them well.
I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down
or the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,
the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night,
before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.
Virgil
#92. I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more.
Oskar Schindler
#93. My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.
Lee Maracle
#94. Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience.
Max Stirner
#95. As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding, and at the same time try to resist corruption and deception. In other words, I must do my utmost to act in harmony with my conscience and my better self.
Vaclav Havel
#96. I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.
Kage Baker
#97. In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
William Congreve
#99. Ithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent
it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.
Randy Alcorn
#100. I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.
Boris Trajkovski
