Top 100 Quotes About A Conscience
#1. Misfortune simply is. And when you wall it off, you do not have a clear conscience, because perhaps you are supposed to dedicate all your efforts and all your attention to it. And all you can say in your own defense is 'I want to live.
Czeslaw Milosz
#2. Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.
Jonathan Swift
#3. I'd love to sign a contract for the soundtracks to every Wes Anderson movie, you know what I'm saying? Things like that, I have no spots on my conscience about.
Doseone
#4. If a man seeks to drink enough to blind his conscience, tis acquavit or nothing.
Lilith Saintcrow
#5. If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
Michel De Montaigne
#6. Conscience is just a polite word for cowardice. No civilised man regrets a pleasure.
Lord Henry Wotton
#7. Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#8. For the South African White minority, neo-liberalism is apartheid with a clean conscience, called Democracy.
Arundhati Roy
#9. Are you genuine? or just a play-actor? A representative? it the actual thing represented?-Ultimately you are even just an imitation play-actor ... Second question for the conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. The English have a proverb, 'Conscience makes cowboys of us all'.
Saki
#11. There is nothing to fear on earth but sin. Prison and death are nothing compared to a guilty conscience. If we are destined to suffer unjustly, if all the world forsake us, God will not. Whatever happens, then, let us put our trust in God.
Christoph Von Schmid
#12. I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.
Sharon Kay Penman
#14. Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#15. I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked back on and said, 'That's the company that honoured me, even though I don't have an education'. I wanted to build a company that had a conscience.
Howard Schultz
#16. He had taken a piece of my tainted soul...of my heart...and made him a part of me. He was in my every cell, my conscience. He was simply part of me.
Tillie Cole
#18. He was unique to her among men because he's impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who's nature is an object of reverential belief may become a new conscience to a man.
George Eliot
#19. A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.
Simon Soloveychik
#20. Guilt is always a good thing. If I kick you in the groin right now and don't feel guilty about it there's something wrong with me. Something's wrong with my conscience.
Lino Rulli
#21. A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous
Thomas Hobbes
#22. The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
Oscar Wilde
#23. Most fires made by underestimated sparks, the greatness fire inside ourselves is lit by the spark of the change, came across a small corner in our souls where the conscience still whispering.
Ammar Moussa
#24. A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
Jane Austen
#25. There is nothing in the world that could make me turn from the law. With a clear conscience, I am prepared to answer for each and every one of my political and administrative orders and actions, and to do so before the court of public opinion ...
Djemal Pasha
#26. Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.
Jean De La Bruyere
#27. Better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one.
David Crockett
#28. A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is the spirit of true democracy, and all government by the Priesthood should be actuated by that same high motive.
David O. McKay
#29. A quiet conscience makes one so serene.
Lord Byron
#30. Oh, Anna Aemelin, the only thing you care about is your own conscience. That's what you cherish. You're a charming little liar.
Tove Jansson
#31. He (John Puller) wanted to intimidate. Intimidated people with a guilty conscience often made mistakes.
David Baldacci
#32. Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.
Jeff Lindsay
#33. OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
Ambrose Bierce
#34. My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lot,That lies too high for base contempt,Too low for envy's shot.
Robert Southwell
#35. One who has a deaden conscience can never live within the confinements of the law.
Drexel Deal
#36. Those who reject both the goals and the means for the sake of their conscience, because they judge them to be of a wrong kind, are rebels. Their response is called rebellion.
Venkata Mohan
#37. Between the radiant white of a clear conscience and the coal black of a conscience sullied by sin lie many shades of gray
where most of us live our lives. Not perfect but not beyond redemption.
Sherry L. Hoppe
#38. Farmers today keep themselves in ignorance of the needs and true nature of pigs precisely because to know would put their conscience in a terrible bind. Wilful ignorance of this kind is no better than complicity.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#39. Discipline yourself to be a disciple of great works and to do that excellently, you have to wave "bye-bye" to some things and then switch off your inner person not to go near them again!
Israelmore Ayivor
#40. Appa enjoys our current prosperity with considerable hesitation, as if it were undeserved. He's given to quoting a proverb that says wealth shouldn't strike suddenly like a visitation, but instead grow gradually like a tree.
Vivek Shanbhag
#41. And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly heaved the black sea, as if its vast tides were a conscience; and the great mundane soul were in anguish and remorse for the long sin and suffering it had bred.
Herman Melville
#42. I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.
Bonnie Raitt
#43. The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.
George Washington
#44. I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.
Zbigniew Herbert
#45. In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience.
Kwame
#46. Our soul is that part of our being which possesses intelligence, conscience, and memory - the real personality. Your body will die, but your soul lives on. And that soul has a "sixth sense" - the ability to believe, to have faith.
Billy Graham
#47. A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing
Elizabeth I
#48. The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#49. It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#50. Wanted, a man "who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to heed a strong will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Brett McKay
#51. Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.
P.Sainath
#52. Treat your date with the respect and purity you hope your future spouse will have. Keep in mind how you will expect a young man to treat your daughter one day. By listening to your conscience in this way, you'll have a good idea of where to draw the line.
Jason Evert
#53. Sometimes I feel like I'm losing my mind," she said with a hint
of sadness.
"You lost your mind a long time ago," he said seriously. She looked at him with indignation. "That's a compliment for anyone who knows the freedom and clarity of losing their mind," he reaffirmed her.
Daniel J. Rice
#54. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, Praise the eternal justice of man!
Mary Shelley
#55. Does changing for the better absolve you of all the wicked shit you did before?
No. March fills my head like a warm glow. Instead you receive the twin delights of guilt and regret.
Ann Aguirre
#56. Mercy felt a wide, humorless spread across his face. She's my conscience. My soul. The only part of me that hasn't gone all the way dark. No one fucks with her and gets out alive.
Lauren Gilley
#57. All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have been fallen drops of rain since the creation, cannot wash away one sin. The everlasting burnings in hell cannot purify the flaming conscience from the least sin.
John Flavel
#58. The sudden ending of a White House career all seems so unceremonious for aides who have personally sacrificed a lot - and sometimes even bent their conscience - to do the president's bidding.
Helen Thomas
#59. Perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#60. Kill her. Hide the body. If only he could ... Damn, stupid conscience. Why had the gods given them that gift? It definitely should have come with a return policy.' (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#61. Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
Thomas A Kempis
#62. Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#63. Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
Laurence Sterne
#64. Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.
Katharina Zell
#65. Nasty thing, a conscience, isn't it? Keeps us aware of what's right and wrong.
Keri Lake
#66. They were no match for her, even though there were four of them against one of her: She was a witch, as Harry knew, with prodigious skill and no conscience.
J.K. Rowling
#67. The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.
James Russell Lowell
#68. Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.
George W. Bush
#69. Cole stared at the Pinocchio clock, then a small ceramic figurine of Jiminy Cricket a client had given him. Let your conscience be your guide. Everyone needed a Jiminy.
Robert Crais
#71. The Kingdom of God is, in reality, the mental kingdom of a conscientious, compassionate and courageous human.
Abhijit Naskar
#72. Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.
Pope Francis
#73. Animated by Christian motives and directed to Christian ends, it shall in no wise go unrewarded: here, by the testimony of an approving conscience; hereafter, by the benediction of our blessed Redeemer, and a brighter inheritance his Father's house.
Richard Mant
#74. But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my
country.
Upton Sinclair
#75. I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate.
James McGreevey
#76. A guilty conscience is jealousy's playground.
L. Quick
#77. I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes in our country's political history happened at the time I was growing up, so I was raised to be a part of those things and to participate and I will continue to do that as much as I can.
George Clooney
#78. Instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest forever, Thou didst choose all that is exceptional, vague and enigmatic.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#79. The Talents aren't alive - no more than your conscience is alive, or your anger is alive. You may feel like these things have a life to them, but that's dangerous - it makes them external, Al. Like you don't have responsibility for them. Your Talent is a piece of you.
Brandon Sanderson
#80. There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
Vikram Chatwal
#81. a clear conscience is usually a sign of bad memory.
Ashwin Sanghi
#82. When you look in the mirror and cringe as a result of your shame, it is conscience. When you look in the mirror and cringe as a result of how people think of you, it is ego. Which of the two is more prevalent in your life?
Laura Bates
#83. If I had the remaking of man, he wouldn't have any conscience. It is one of the most disagreeable things connected with a person; and although it certainly does a great deal of good, it cannot be said to pay, in the long run; it would be much better to have less good and more comfort.
Mark Twain
#84. My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#85. 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
#86. When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
Robert Bolt
#87. There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
Hartley William Shawcross
#88. We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.
John Lewis
#89. Conscience. Imagine being pursued by your own conscience ... .A mountain of conscience. Throwing a lengthening shadow. Growing. Darkening.
Louise Penny
#90. Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#91. Those who don't know will have to find out by experience that "a quiet conscience gives you strength!" Yours,
Anne Frank
#92. Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.
Charles Lamb
#93. My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.
Daniel Bruhl
#94. To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.
Charles Caleb Colton
#95. A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.
Carlo Collodi
#96. Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience
this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
Karl Kraus
#98. It does not matter if you vote for the left or right, you are not an elephant or donkey. You are a truthful lion who stands only for your conscience.
Suzy Kassem
#100. A conscience is the price of morality, and morality is the price of civilization.
Tom Clancy
