Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Freeman Clarke

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

Yancey Little

She's one of those girls that when she's on, you better watch out. She doesn't have much of a conscience when she's shooting like that.

Winston Churchill

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Marian Edelman

The planned execution of Mr. Williams will leave a permanent scar on the conscience of the state of Georgia, on your administration and on our nation.

Marvin Hier

Simon Wiesenthal was the conscience of the Holocaust.

Jim Compton

She has an incredible work ethic. She has become this sort of historical conscience of the council,

Bob Inglis

Hundreds of American soldiers have given their lives in Afghanistan to promote liberty, including freedom of conscience and religion.

Ernie Accorsi

He was the conscience of the National Football League.

Dennis Haysbert

I think that (my character) President David Palmer was the voice of conscience on that series, and it was a mistake to take that voice away. Of course, as an actor, I'm happy that I can now work with Mamet.

Rita Mero

Playboy was a wonderful experience and a great opportunity for me.

Robin G. Collingwood

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Thomas Hobbes

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

Thomas Hobbes

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

Francis Bacon

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Francis Bacon

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Rita Mero

It's a wonderful feeling knowing that people are interested in what I'm doing.

Jeremy Bentham

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?

Jeremy Bentham

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Alan Jay Lerner

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

Byron Katie

A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.

Dean Acheson

Brains are no substitute for judgement.

Baltasar Gracian

Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.

Charlotte Bronte

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Ayn Rand

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.

Bryant H. McGill

Let your resistance, judgements, angers and fears inform you.

Brian Jacques

A little (one) can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement gets clouded. —Abbot Saxtus

Charlotte Gainsbourg

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.