Conscience Quotes

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.

Thomas Hardy

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

Sergio Aragones

The conscience of the dying belies their life.

Luc De Clapiers

Love and what generates it. Rebellion and what creates it. Liberty and what nourishes it. Three manifestations of God. And God is the conscience of the rational world.

Khalil Gibran

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

Jacques Lacan

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

Isaac Barrow

... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.

E.A. Bucchianeri

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

William Shakespeare

The God of Peace, the God of Truth will shortly seal this truth, and confirm this witness, and make it evident to the whole world, that the doctrine of persecution for cause of conscience, is most evidently and lamentably contrary to the doctrine of Christ Jesus the Prince of Peace. Amen.

Roger Williams (theologian)

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.

William Shakespeare

You govern people, you do good and bad things.If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside.

Toba Beta

Une civilisation sans la Science, ce serait aussi absurde qu'un poisson sans bicyclette.

Pierre Desproges

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

Robert Ludlum

When life has been well spent; when there is a conscience without reproach; when there is faith in the Saviour; when there is a well-founded hope of heaven, there can be nothing that should disquiet us.

Albert Barnes

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest

Mark Twain

There wasn't a moment where I got into cars. It wasn't a conscience decision or something that came later, it was there since I was born. I just love it.

Eric Bana

I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.

J. D. Salinger

Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Oscar Wilde

A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the State with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated by it as enemies.

Henry David Thoreau

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

George Bernard Shaw