Top 100 Quotes About Conscience
#1. The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#3. 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
#4. The moral world has no greater spectacle than this: a troubled and restless conscience on the verge of committing an evil deed, contemplating the sleep of a good man.
Victor Hugo
#5. Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis.
The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand.
(it sounds better in french, I do what I can with my translation ... )
Edgar Allan Poe
#6. I tried to cheer her up, and apparently succeeded in some degree, before the walk was over; but in the very act my conscience reproved me, knowing, as I did, that, sooner or later, the tie must be broken, and this was only nourishing false hopes and putting off the evil day.
Anne Bronte
#7. I hope you find peace, my brother. (Acheron) Peace walks hand in hand with a quite conscience. (Savitar)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#8. The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.
Steve Turner
#9. And I maintain, Detective Halse," said Inspector Fry doggedly, "that the civil unrest which allowing this message to remain in view would foment is against the principles of conscience and of British decency. Are you against the principles of British decency, Detective?
Lyndsay Faye
#10. Worldlings may well be afraid, for they have an angry God above them, a guilty conscience within them, and a yawning hell beneath them; but we who rest in Jesus are saved from all these through rich mercy.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#11. Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system.
Lauren Zalaznick
#12. There is indeed reward for those who follow the path of conscience,
R.A. Salvatore
#13. That, if the Gentiles, (whom no Law inspir'd,)
By Nature did what was by Law requir'd;
They, who the written Rule and never known,
Were to themselves both Rule and Law alone:
To Natures plain Indictment they shall plead;
And, by their Conscience, be condemn'd or freed.
John Dryden
#16. Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.
Jeremy Collier
#17. The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.
Charles Spurgeon
#18. The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.
Erik Erikson
#19. Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
George Bernard Shaw
#20. Nullification is not a 'defense' recognized by law, but rather a mechanism that permits a jury, as community conscience, to disregard the strict requirements of law where it finds that those requirements cannot justly be applied in a particular case.
David L. Bazelon
#21. It is our conscience, not our pride, that has put doorkeepers at our doors.
Seneca.
#22. I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man's accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.
Jack Vance
#23. Worry more about your conscience than your reputation. Because your conscience is what you are, your reputation is what others think of you. And what others think of you is their problem.
Charlie Chaplin
#24. Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.
John Oldham
#25. I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver from bending but also prevents it from shining.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#26. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
Omar Nelson Bradley
#27. In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
William Adams
#28. Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.
Jose Saramago
#29. Richness not merely means our bank accounts. Let Richness be in our talks, in our walks of life, in our moralistic and conscience oriented life.
Rajasaraswathii
#30. Time entails memory, memory entails conscience, conscience entails thought for the future, which is itself implied by the existence of time.
John Brunner
#31. Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
William Morley Punshon
#32. The reason why a person does not have success can be found inside him. It is his worldview, conscience, and perception of life
Sunday Adelaja
#33. Twice a day, or at least once, make your particular examens. Be careful never to omit them. So live as to make more account of your own good conscience than you do of those of others; for he who is not good in regard to himself, how can he be good in regard to others?
James Martin
#34. So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps fast, not to be awakened while the tide of pleasure continues to flow or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again.
Daniel Defoe
#36. Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#37. Conscience is a vigilant eye before which each imagination, thought, and act is held up for either censure or approval ... There is no greater proof of the existence of a moral law and Lawgiver in the universe than this little light of the soul. It is God's voice to the inner man.
Billy Graham
#38. Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
Bernard Cornwell
#39. 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
#40. No one who ever follows their conscience ever does wrong. The consequences may not turn out as we intended; it may prove that we made a mistake. But that is not the same as being wrong.
Robert Harris
#41. As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman ... For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.
John Knox
#42. Because he had hardened his soul and silenced his conscience with the excuse of progress
Isabel Allende
#43. We're all primitives underneath, that's why we had to invent God, to be the voice of our conscience, or we would be killing each other left, right and centre.
Kate Atkinson
#44. The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#45. Our Heavenly Father does not usually cause us to seek the Savior till He has whipped us clean out of all our confidence; He cannot make us in earnest after Heaven till He has made us feel something of the intolerable tortures of an aching conscience, which is a foretaste of hell.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#46. Shakespeare: ... the best way to peace is to have a still and quiet conscience. Or none at all, thought Gamache.
Louise Penny
#48. Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily.
Sivananda
#49. It has
long been our contention that ' dread of society [soziale
Angsty is the essence of what is called conscience.
Sigmund Freud
#50. Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
#51. You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.
Price Pritchett
#52. 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
#53. There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual
James Russell Lowell
#54. The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience.
Justin Alcala
#55. Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.
Eva Hoffman
#56. One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
Ian McEwan
#57. But then this is how it is for women everywhere. You experience one lapse in conscience, in how low you think you'll go, in what you'll accept, and pretty soon you're at the bottom
Lisa See
#58. There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.
Charles Dickens
#59. If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.
Michael Arrington
#61. If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.
C.S. Lewis
#62. 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
#63. The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state.
Albert Einstein
#64. No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
Norman Rockwell
#66. Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.
August Strindberg
#67. My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!
Edward Dyer
#68. 1. That he had approved himself to his own conscience, verse 12: "For our own rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward." 2.
Jonathan Edwards
#70. Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving.
Richard Whately
#71. The scorner has brought, in reference to himself, all religion and moral feeling to an end. He has sat down - is utterly confirmed in impiety, and makes a mock at sin. His conscience is seared, and he is a believer in all unbelief. Now, blessed is the man who sits not down in his SEAT. Adam Clarke.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#72. A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
Pam Brown
#73. Still, it's better to be distracted by the crowd than to be left with memories that serve no purpose other than to torture the conscience and flog the heart.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#74. Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.
Henry Ward Beecher
#76. It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
Chris Kyle
#77. Have courage and do not fear the assaults of the Devil. Remember this forever; it is a healthy sign if the devil shouts and roars around your conscience, since this shows that he is not inside your will.
Padre Pio
#78. The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Voltaire
#79. We think ourselves possessed, or, at least, we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects, and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact!
John Adams
#80. Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.
Albert Schweitzer
#81. Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off? ... Third question for the conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#82. He could not, in good conscience, promote any association with Daisy Green and her band of ladies. He could more easily recommend gang membership or fence-hopping into the polar bear enclosure at the Regents Park zoo.
Helen Simonson
#83. I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
Al Sharpton
#84. 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
#85. Are you angry? Be angry at your sins, beat your soul, afflict your conscience, but strict in judgement and a terrible punisher of your own sins. This is the benefit of anger, wherefore God placed it in us.
Saint John Chrysostom
#86. I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it ...
Mahatma Gandhi
#87. Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.
J. Budziszewski
#88. Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
Robert McNamara
#89. Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.
Lord Acton
#90. I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
#91. Can nothing be done for freedom because the public conscience is inert?
William H. Seward
#92. I'm the first kid to write of hearts, lies, and friends, and I'm sorry my conscience called in sick again. I've got arrogance down to a science.
Pete Wentz
#93. 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
#94. A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.
Jesse Ventura
#95. Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
George A. Smith
#96. The benefits of a pure conscience comprise some of the greatest blessings of the Christian life.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#97. Human beings "belong" to some minor comity or enclave of faith at the expense of the clarity and autarkia of their intelligence and conscience, of course. "Belonging" is another way of saying: "capitulating to."
Kenny Smith
#98. Major, I do not know why God does the things He does, but I believe you have the same duty to God as you have always had: to follow the right path, to live your life with a clear conscience.
Jeff Shaara
#99. It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.
Thomas Brooks
#100. The sun is all love and murder, judgement, the perpetual raid of conscience, paratrooping light which opens like a snow-blossom in the downward drift of death. Wherever I turn - the golden cymbals of judgement, the summoning of the torturers of light.
Janet Frame
