Conscience Quotes
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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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The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.
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One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.
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A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
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Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good.
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Somewhere between childhood and adulthood we can lose our sense of conscience if we're not careful.
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Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.
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A clear conscience is absolutely essential for distinguishing between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. Unconfessed sin is a prime reason why many do not know God's will.
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The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.
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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!
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Public opinion is a second conscience.
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I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
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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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I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
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One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.
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Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my 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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Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.
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A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.
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I wish our country could be a free and happy one. Every citizen need not go against their conscience and can find their own place by their virtue and talents; a simple and happy society, where the goodness of humanity is expanded to the maximum, and the evilness of humanity is constrained to the maximum; honesty, trust, kindness, and helping each other are everyday occurrences in life; there is not so much anger and anxiety, a pure smile on everyone’s face.
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God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
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Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.
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Humanity’s moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely…
