#conscience

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. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#endangered #false #false modesty #fidelity #inconsistent

The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#got #president #said #vote #you

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. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#conscience #decisions #faith #guy #i

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#been #commitment #conscience #crucial #faith

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#conscience #evil #parents #penance #prison

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#ends #mother-in-law #never #visit #whose

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#inner #inner voice #looking #might #someone

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. ↗

— Evo Morales

#capacity #change #change things #colonial #combine

The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing. ↗

— Charles Munch

#burden #collective #conscience #every #his

A satellite has no conscience. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#conscience #satellite