Top 66 Bad Conscience Quotes
#1. I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.
Simon Wiesenthal
#2. If one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience.
Maria Augusta Von Trapp
#3. Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.
August Strindberg
#4. He may be innocent of the murder, but he has certainly a bad conscience.
Mary Shelley
#5. In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, .. So how can one explain that we are today investigating an action our country should be proud of?.
Alain Juppe
#7. No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
Harvey MacKay
#8. Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#9. 'Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a stomach-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, and have a bad conscience ...
How terrible.
Tove Jansson
#10. In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad conscience. If there's a God that created us, if I am bad, it's his fault.
Marjane Satrapi
#11. Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.
Robert Lowell
#12. Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience ... I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.
Albert Einstein
#13. It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. I love writing songs. One of the toughest things is structure; it just works when you use verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. And as soon as you become aware of that formula, you start to have a bad conscience when you write with that particular structure.
Rivers Cuomo
#15. In the United States the whites speak well of the Blacks but think bad about them, whereas the Blacks talk bad and think bad aboutthe whites. Whites fear Blacks, because they have a bad conscience, and Blacks hate whites because they need not have a bad conscience.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#16. I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
Ingmar Bergman
#17. Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.
Franz Kafka
#18. Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.
Fulton J. Sheen
#19. No flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.
Thomas Watson
#20. It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.
Louis Simpson
#21. Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.
Heinrich Heine
#22. The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
John Calvin
#25. We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#26. Hous vivons aux temps des assassins - "we live in days of assassins" - where evil is sought in lives more than good in order to justify a world with a bad conscience.
Fulton J. Sheen
#27. About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#28. Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience
this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
Karl Kraus
#31. A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
Mark Twain
#32. You govern people, you do good and bad things.
If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside.
Toba Beta
#33. Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
Ellen Glasgow
#34. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. - STEVEN WRIGHT
Darynda Jones
#35. In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. There are always two voices in our heads, the good and the bad. The tricky part is to figure out which one of them is doing the talking.
Saahil Prem
#37. Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.
William Shakespeare
#38. Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.
Tom Clancy
#39. It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#40. Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
Pliny The Elder
#41. One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
John Dewey
#42. Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
Patrick Henry
#43. Some folk are dealt a bad hand. But you can't rely on another person's conscience to live the life you want to live. You make do with what you're given; you struggle on.
Eleanor Catton
#44. And there's another thing: a man should stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience and all that sort of thing. Why--what else would you have to fight against.
Joseph Conrad
#45. The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.
Sergio Aragones
#46. Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
Ian McEwan
#47. What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience.
Marianne Williamson
#48. Or perhaps the syndrome we are witnessing is preemptive capitulation: If we reduce our conscience to rubble before the bad men get here, they will have nothing to destroy.
J. Budziszewski
#49. Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#50. There had been in his past, as in every man's, actions, recognized by him as bad, for which his conscience ought to have tormented him; but the memory of these evil actions was far from causing him so much suffering as those trivial but humiliating reminiscences.
Leo Tolstoy
#51. Is it not true that your gloominess and bad temper are due to your lack of determination in breaking the subtle snares laid by your own disordered desires? The daily examination of conscience is an indispensible help if we are to follow our Lord with sincerity of heart and integrity of life.
Josemaria Escriva
#52. If you want to know the real reasons behind that attitude, think of the thought behind that attitude
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#53. Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!
James Clavell
#54. Better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one.
David Crockett
#56. Most people develop their social conscience when young, during that brief period between leaving school and deciding that injustice isn't necessarily all bad, and
Terry Pratchett
#57. The man who tells you nothing frightens him is whistling in the dark. Besides, fear is not necessarily bad. It may guard you from harm. And I suspect that fear of being caught, punished and disgraced keeps many more of us from committing crimes than does the voice of conscience'.
Victoria Clayton
#58. Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.
C.S. Lewis
#59. You must learn not what people round you consider good or bad, but to act in life as your conscience bids you. An untrammelled conscience will always know more than all the books and teachers put together.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#60. Now I feel bad I didn't give her the second quarter. Grandma says that's called having a conscience.
Emma Donoghue
#61. Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.
John Robbins
#63. There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.
Joe Wright
#64. The town believed that good women dont forget things easily, good or bad, lest the taste and savor of forgiveness die from the palate of conscience.
William Faulkner
#65. a clear conscience is usually a sign of bad memory.
Ashwin Sanghi
#66. Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming a social conscience and is lambasted by legislators as if its bad behavior places it somewhere between investment bankers and the Taliban.
Charles Platt
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