Quotes on Conscience

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Author: William Alger

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Author: Dante Alighieri

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

Author: Saint Ambrose

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.

Author: Cleveland Amory

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

Author: Michelangelo Antonioni

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

Author: Francis Assisi

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Author: Walter Bagehot

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Author: Honore Balzac

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Author: George Bancroft

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Author: Max Beerbohm

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Author: Josh Billings

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

Author: Pam Brown

I have no bad conscience.

Author: Alois Brunner

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

Author: Georg Buchner

A good conscience is a continual feast.

Author: Robert Burton

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

Author: Octavia Butler

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

Author: Octavia Butler

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

Author: Rocco Buttiglione

I have a clear conscience.

Author: Wilhelm Canaris

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Author: Giacomo Casanova

Go by your own conscience.

Author: Steve Chabot

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Author: Nicolas Chamfort

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

Author: William Channing

For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.

Author: Martin Chemnitz

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

Author: Frank Clark

The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

Author: Harold Coffin

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

Author: Edwin Cole

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Author: Joseph Conrad

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Author: Joseph Cook

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.

Author: Bernard Cornwell

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

Author: Davy Crockett

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

Author: Edward Dahlberg

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

Author: Charles Edison

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Author: Albert Einstein

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

Author: Elizabeth Elizabeth I

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

Author: Arthur Erickson

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

Author: Lion Feuchtwanger

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

Author: Henry Fielding

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

Author: Gustave Flaubert

As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.

Author: Wilhelm Frick

We were a country band with a social conscience.

Author: Kinky Friedman

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

Author: Max Frisch

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Author: Marguerite Gardiner

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

Author: William Gladstone

Conscience is a man's compass.

Author: Vincent Gogh

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.

Author: Lillian Hellman

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

Author: Anita Hill

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Author: Thomas Hobbes

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Author: Douglas Horton

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

Author: Anne Hutchinson

Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

Author: Victoria Jackson

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

Author: Carl Jung

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

Author: Jack Kevorkian

If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

Author: Lajos Kossuth

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

Author: Charles Kuralt

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

Author: Walter Landor

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

Author: James Larkin

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Author: Harper Lee

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Author: Harper Lee

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Author: Martin Luther

A clear conscience is a sure card.

Author: John Lyly

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Author: Harriet Martineau

It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.

Author: Thabo Mbeki

The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.

Author: Scott McClellan

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

Author: Robert McNamara

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Author: H. Mencken

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

Author: Jonathan Miller

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Author: John Milton

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Author: Michel Montaigne

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Author: Michel Montaigne

A satellite has no conscience.

Author: Edward Murrow

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.

Author: Carl Ossietzky

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

Author: Kenneth Pike

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

Author: Salvatore Quasimodo

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

Author: Jim Ramstad

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Author: Bertrand Russell

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

Author: Samuel Rutherford

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

Author: Budd Schulberg

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

Author: Budd Schulberg

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Author: Lucius Seneca

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Author: George Shaw

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Author: Isaac Singer

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

Author: George Smith

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Author: Sophocles

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Author: Elizabeth Stanton

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

Author: Andrew Sullivan

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

Author: Charles V

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Author: Izaak Walton

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Author: Mary Ward

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Author: George Washington

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

Author: Henry Waxman

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

Author: Ida Wells

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Author: Benjamin Whichcote

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

Author: Simon Wiesenthal

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

Author: William Yeats

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

Author: Loretta Young

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

Author: Marguerite Young

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

Author: Stefan Zweig