Top 100 Quotes About A Conscience
#1. Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.
Jon Winokur
#2. Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.'
'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as we please. That's the difference between us and everything else in creation.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#3. A conscience is easier to swallow on an empty belly, simpler to swing with a broken wrist.
Jay Kristoff
#4. 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
#5. One begins to go about with the sluggish step of a philosopher or a clochard, as more and more vital gestures become reduced to mere instincts of preservation, to a conscience more alert not to be deceived than to grasp truth.
Julio Cortazar
#6. No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
Norman Rockwell
#7. There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about the world, being unambitious, and having a conscience.
Shaqiq Al-Balkhi
#8. Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?
Honore De Balzac
#10. It's always fun to play the innocent, no matter what you're doing. If you feel like you're doing the right thing, you can get away with a lot comedically. I had definitely missed not having a conscience.
Portia De Rossi
#11. Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system.
Lauren Zalaznick
#12. Something's still wrong
the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone's heart. A conscience that's seared.
Heather Day Gilbert
#13. A conscience without regrets ~ to live life without having to say you're sorry.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#14. It is a misconception that the innocent sleep well. The worse a man is, the more profound his slumber; for if he had a conscience, he would not be a villain. When
Elizabeth Peters
#15. We create the race by creating ourselves and then to our great astonishment we will have created something far more important: We will have created a culture. Why waste time creating a conscience for something that doesn't exist? For, you see, blood and skin do not think!
Ralph Ellison
#16. When you begin to surrender control and let God fill you with His love, with renewed purpose, and with a conscience at peace, then the joy welling up inside you will begin pouring out onto the people in your family aswell.
Stephen Kendrick
#17. I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.
Ambrose Bierce
#18. Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that pious rider, and the rider fares no better in the situation, since his endeavor is not only to tame the pig, but also to render it invisible.
Stanislaw Lem
#19. All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists of bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.
Lin Yutang
#21. You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.
Peter Morgan
#22. Because everybody has a conscience, whether or not we can be great beings is not determined merely by its presence in us . Instead, it is determined by the choice to acknowledge its presence and follow its lead
Ilchi Lee
#23. Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
James Baldwin
#24. A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.
Tom Clancy
#25. Wine often makes people say things, do things without the distraction of a conscience.
Marsha Canham
#26. No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.
Mark Twain
#27. Only those with a conscience can find an action unconscionable.
F.D. Crandall
#28. A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience.
Evan Esar
#29. It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#31. I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.
Cody Johnson
#32. Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?
And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists?
And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air?
Oh they're taking him to prison for the color of his hair.
A.E. Housman
#33. The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout the play is that most selfish of all concerns: to get a good night's sleep.
Mary McCarthy
#34. I hate a conscience. It's always making you feel low down and disreputable. I don't believe I will say anything to my children about one, and let them have some peace.
Kate Langley Bosher
#35. The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.
John Hockenberry
#36. The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.
Andrew Sullivan
#37. Villains with a conscience have this sad realization of who they are, and the monster they've become - there's a sense of regret. So at the end of these movies there's a dramatic resonance that really stays with the audience.
Thomas Haden Church
#38. I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow ... I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
Barbara Kingsolver
#39. She was dark, thin, healthy, good-looking, clever, ambitious, rich, unsatisfied, perhaps unscrupulous - but not without a conscience.
Anthony Trollope
#40. I'm a human being with a conscience, and when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.
Quentin Tarantino
#41. There wasn't a moment where I got into cars. It wasn't a conscience decision or something that came later, it was there since I was born. I just love it.
Eric Bana
#43. That Newton shuddered now [at slavery] is a testimony to they way a strong social movement can awaken a conscience..
Adam Hochschild
#45. But that's what I love about punk music. It has a sense of humor about itself, doesn't pretend to be something it's not. It's kickass funk with a heavy-metal edge, but with a conscience. Good
Rachel Cohn
#46. I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.
Pierre Bayle
#47. Regret is good. It proves you have a conscience.
J.R. Young
#48. Do you know what morals are Violet? They're other people's rules. Do you know what a conscience is? Freedom to use your own intelligence to determine what is right or wrong. You possess that freedom and no one can remove it from you
Amy Tan
#49. Unless we suppress our conscience, we naturally know basic moral truths. General virtues and vices, Thomas Reid wrote, "must appear self-evident to every man who has a conscience, and has taken the pains to exercise this natural power of his mind" ("Of Morals").
Anonymous
#50. I am going like a lamb to the slaughter; but I am calm as a summer's morning; I have a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards all men. I shall die innocent, and it shall be said of me-He was murdered in cold blood
Joseph Smith Jr.
#51. God desires that we become spiritually healthy enough through faith to have a conscience that rightly interprets the work of the Holy Spirit.
Beth Moore
#52. You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#53. A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.
Andrew O'Hagan
#54. When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.
Kathryn Bigelow
#55. A conscience is like a boat or a car. If you feel you need one, rent it.
JR
#56. There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.
Edward Thomson
#58. As a boy when his mother told him to listen to the voice inside him to help him tell the difference between right and wrong, nothing happened. He concluded that "either I was too wicked to have a conscience or too good to need one".
Julian Jaynes
#59. I fool myself into thinking killers have a conscience. Some might. But not all.
A J Betts
#60. Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience.
Angelika Rust
#61. Honesty was for those who could afford it, like heating or electricity or a conscience.
Stacia Kane
#62. I'm a politician, Gwenvael! Of course, I don't have a conscience.
G.A. Aiken
#63. There's so few people in this town with a conscience.
Blake Edwards
#64. It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.
Martin Luther
#65. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience. Law
Henry David Thoreau
#66. Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.
George Herbert
#68. Don't go growing a conscience on me," I said. "I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.
Michael Connelly
#70. Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.
Jim Butcher
#71. There isn't one single thing that will end unwinding. It will take a hodgepodge of random events that come together in just the right way and at just the right time to remind society it's got a conscience. -Sonia
Neal Shusterman
#72. We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
Arthur Erickson
#73. Only the strong survived. Only the strong were rewarded. For the longest time, Four was another conquest. A prize Three had won. Then he'd realized Four was the one who dominated. He'd tamed the dragon, the monster, and given a conscience to Stone's most ruthless killer.
Adrienne Wilder
#74. How wonderful that God should endow us with this sensitive yet strong guide we call a conscience! Someone has aptly re-marked that conscience is a celestial spark which God has put into every man for the purpose of saving his soul.
Spencer W. Kimball
#75. All politicians are said to be thieves but all thieves are not politicians which implies that some thieves do have a conscience.
Amit Abraham
#76. The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#77. He has all the weaknesses that come with a conscience, but none of the strengths.
John Connolly
#78. If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
Max Frisch
#79. A heartsong doesn't have to be a song in your heart. It doesn't have to be talking about love and peace. It can just be your message. It can be your feeling. Some people might even call it a conscience, even though that's not really what it is. It's your message, what you feel like you need to do.
Mattie Stepanek
#80. To act without a conscience, but for a paycheck, makes anyone a dangerous animal. The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work.
Suzy Kassem
#82. The killer walked with a light step that could be achieved only by someone not weighed down with a conscience, and went out into the night's embrace.
Dean Koontz
#83. If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake That will be punishment as well as the prison.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#84. A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was a partner. I wouldn't give a penny for a man as 'ud drive a nail in slack because he didn't get extra pay for it.
George Eliot
#85. [D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice ... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.
Hesketh Pearson
#86. This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#87. In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience.
Kwame
#88. Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
Henry David Thoreau
#89. I value people with a conscience. It's like a beeper from God.
Robert Orben
#90. Because there's a big hole in their brains where most people have a conscience.
James Patterson
#91. One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience.
Sean Combs
#92. You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There's not one part that He doesn't want to make completely whole.
Joyce Meyer
#93. 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
#94. I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what I mean.
Sheryl Crow
#95. Pamela, even at a distance, was the voice of her conscience, but then it was very easy to have a conscience from a distance.
Kate Atkinson
#96. 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
#97. Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'
Norman Schwarzkopf
#98. A conscience can be a dangerous thing
Kyra Dune
#99. The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#100. 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
