Conscience Quotes

Liberty of conscience (when people have consciences) is rightly considered the most indispensable of liberties.

Haddon Chambers

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

Conscience is a sacred sanctuary where God alone may enter as judge.

Felicite Robert de Lamennais

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope self.

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.

William Shakespeare

The soft whispers of the God in man.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.

Anonymous

Conscience is but a word that cowards use Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.

William Shakespeare

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

A man's vanity tells him what is honour a man's conscience what is justice.

Walter Savage Landor

Conscience does make cowards of us all.

William Shakespeare

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Oliver Goldsmith

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

Shame arises from the fear of man conscience from the fear of God.

Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell!

The only incorruptible thing about us.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

John Henry Newman

A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together!

Mehmet Murat ildan

All this gave way to my first encounter with guilt, which is still something entirely inscrutable to me, as if aliens were sending transmissions from another planet, telling me there is a right and a wrong in the universe.

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

Henry David Thoreau

Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it.

If this inner and critical voice has kept you safe for many years as your inner voice of authority, you may end up not being able to hear the real voice of God.

~ Tolerance increases hope between people and their voice of conscience.

Vasilios Karpos

You’ll have to be my conscience.” He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. “Mine isn’t going to grow back.

Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back.

Mother: What more can we be?Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that's how he died.

Arrogance makes you stronger from outside, but even more weaker from inside.

Ujas Soni

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

Selfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character.

At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, planted her knee upon his breast! How many times, thrown to the ground by the light, had he cried to it for mercy!

God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was answerable.

conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain

I would sooner have the approval of my own conscience and know that I had done my duty than to have the praise of all the world and not have the approval of my own conscience. A man's own conscience, when he is living as he should live, is the finest monitor and the best judge in all the world. Men can accuse you of wrong-doing, and it has no effect at all if you know they lie and you have done that which is right

Without shame, without conscience.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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.

Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.

In case you’re not bright enough to figure it out, there’s a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your phone. I lie, and your conscience stays clear.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

No," said Father. "Just do the best you can and don't let it worry you. In that way you'll have a clear conscience and a tranquil heart.

Carol Ryrie Brink

Always listen to your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything. You discover your true faith when you start flowing with your conscience. After lessons, visions, and theories validate themselves to you, you begin to build faith in that hypothesis/feeling/idea that originated from your own heart and mind -- not that of others. Before you submit to any one religion, create your own first and then find out which one out there resonates closest with the one already in your heart.

Without demolishing religious schools (madrassahs) and minarets and without abandoning the beliefs and ideas of the medieval age, restriction in thoughts and pains in conscience will not end. Without understanding that unbelief is a kind of religion, and that conservative religious belief a kind of disbelief, and without showing tolerance to opposite ideas, one cannot succeed. Those who look for the truth will accomplish the mission.Mevlana Jalal ad-Din RUMI

Jalaluddin Rumi

When we criticize people, their consciences console them. When we love them, their consciences indict them.

C. Terry Warner

We estimate wrongdoing in proportion to the purity of our conscience

Honoré de Balzac

Never forget Yourself in the wind of success!!

Tanuj

The only thing worth listening to is your conscience.

Share Your Conscience to Other is ultimate sophistication.

Tanuj

The stomach is the seat of all feeling. The heart is the seat of the conscience. The mind is the seat of the ego. Your body is the seat of the soul. When a man goes out in the night and looks up at the universe, he is observing a mirror of himself. The universe within us, is a reflection of the universe we see out our eyes.

I am a Christian, but my time in Iraq has convinced me that God doesn't want to hear from me anymore. I've done things that He can never forgive. I've done them consciously. I've made decisions I must live with for years to come. I am not a victim. In each instance, I heard my conscience call for restraint, I told it to shut the fuck up and let me handle my business. All the sins I've committed, I've done with one objective: to keep my men alive.

His conscience, like a sunburnt scorpion, was stinging itself to death.

Edward St. Aubyn

- a bad conscience is indeed able to make life interesting.

Søren Kierkegaard

What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after, the event, not before, when it might be of some use.

H. Rider Haggard

Yes, they mean well, but the only good that an absence of malice guarantees is a clear conscience.

Zia Haider Rahman

A costume party… great… a chance for the bimbos to whore themselves out with no penalty of conscience. I found myself excruciatingly curious as to what she was going as, a sailor? No. A pilot. That would be something

Nothing is worth the loss of one's conscience, or the ability to do what is right.

Morgan

He had a clear conscience. Never used it.

Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Don't you think it's good to serve your country?' I asked. 'No, I don't,' Mr Peterson said. 'I think it's good to serve your principles. And in the army you don't get to pick and choose your fights according to your conscience. You kill on command. Don't ever surrender your right to make your own moral decisions, kid.

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