Conscience Quotes
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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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The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.
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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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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good 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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Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty 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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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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The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.
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A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.
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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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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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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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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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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!
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I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts.
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Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.
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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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Our enemies are our outward consciences.
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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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Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley’s mother counseled him: ‘Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind.
