Conscience Quotes
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Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty 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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The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
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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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Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
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A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.
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The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.
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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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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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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
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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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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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What distinguishes us humans from animals is our conscience. Once our conscience is gone we lose our humanness. Without conscience, humans can be far more dangerous than beasts. Beasts kill for food, humans kill for ideology. Beasts kill just enough to eat. Humans can kill endlessly.
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts.
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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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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!
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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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Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.
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To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.
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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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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
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Our enemies are our outward consciences.
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Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.
