#conscience

Conscience is a man's compass. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#conscience #man

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#cause #conscience #depend #enforcement #justice

Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#commanded #conscience #deceitful #disagree #enough

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#backs #conscience #continuously #doing #even

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist. ↗

— Bono

#become #being #brother #church #conscience

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#foothold #gain #good #needs #people

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#conscience #difference #hold #law #moral

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. ↗

— Albert Camus

#confess #confession #conscience #guilty #guilty conscience

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. ↗

— Albert Camus

#definition #government #more #nothing #policy

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#conscience #god #great #had #his