Zitat des Tages über Gewissen / Conscience:
It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
I strongly oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. We must stand for the right of every American to practice their faith according to the dictates of their conscience, whether it be in the public square or in the workplace.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Reasonable ideas which find their sanction in the conscience of the righteous do not die; they are consequently realities and active forces, but they are so only to the extent that those who profess them know how to turn them to account.
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Conscience is God present in man.
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.
What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.
In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.