Conscience Quotes
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My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.
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I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.
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The heart and soul of loving yourself is integrity and the peace of conscience it inspires.
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The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.
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What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.
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Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.
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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
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The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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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'.
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We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.
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It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.
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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification.
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Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
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Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.
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Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!
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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.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.
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Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.
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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.
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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.
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I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
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Somewhere between childhood and adulthood we can lose our sense of conscience if we're not careful.
