Conscience Quotes

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Henry James

The bite of conscience is indecent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Mahatma Gandhi

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Origen

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

Albert Einstein

I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

Oscar Wilde

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

George Santayana

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Germaine De Stael

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

Izaak Walton

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

Harper Lee

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Sir Winston Churchill

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

Sir John Mortimer

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

Ogden Nash

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

Ogden Nash

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

Sigmund Freud

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

Doug Horton

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

Walter Lippmann

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

H. L. Mencken