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

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

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

All credibility all good conscience all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Conscience is God present in man.

I cannot and will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand I can do no other so help me God. Amen.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems needing freedom trying to find a way to cut themselves loose but failing to rid themselves of conscience a sense of sin the whole bag of tricks.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning this nation trusted in God not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

When freedom does not have a purpose when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women when it does not listen to the voice of conscience it turns against humanity and society.

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted compassion for the needy and the sick or mercy for the child waiting to be born there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech freedom of conscience and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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.

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience or whether that's even possible interested me.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience you can change things: countries structures economic models colonial states.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

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.

Well I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God not you and the Church.