Conscience Quotes

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Thomas De Quincey

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.

Saint Francis of Assisi

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Sir Winston Churchill

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.

Frank A. Clark

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

Leo Tolstoy

Seven Deadly SinsWealth without workPleasure without conscienceScience without humanityKnowledge without characterPolitics without principleCommerce without moralityWorship without sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

William Cowper

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

George Bancroft

When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

Cyril Connolly

Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

Blaise Pascal

My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

Allanah Myles

Conscience is God present in man.

Victor Hugo

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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

Albert Einstein

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle

Abraham Lincoln

Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law.

Arthur Phelps

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Josh Billings

No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

Napoleon Bonaparte