Conscience Quotes
Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses...grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves.
Robert Burton
Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.
Jim Butcher
There are many who fear disgrace, few who fear conscience.
Bartholomew of San Concordio
Clever men will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness; every authority rouses their ridicule, every superstition amuses them, every convention moves them to contradiction. Only force finds favor in their eyes, and they have no toleration for anything that is not purely natural and spontaneous. And yet ten clever men are not worth one man of talent, nor ten men of talent worth one man of genius. And in the individual, feeling is more than cleverness, reason is worth as much as feeling, and conscience has it over reason. If, then, the clever man is not mockable, he may at least be neither loved, nor considered, nor esteemed. He may make himself feared, it is true, and force others to respect his independence; but this negative advantage, which is the result of a negative superiority, brings no happiness with it. Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Henri-Frdric Amiel
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
Patrick Branwell Bront
We have no leadership, no captain at the helm as it were. We are, in effect, being led from disaster to disaster by a headless horseman run amok with stuffed pockets and an empty conscience.
Larisa Alexandrovna
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Milton, John
Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the authors own conscience.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
What physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favor, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience? A quiet mind cureth all them, but all they cannot comfort a distressed soul: who can put to silence the voice of desperation?
Robert Burton
Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.
William Ellery Channing
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because theyll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.
Edward Snowden
You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.
Napoleon Bonaparte
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.
Mahatma Gandhi
