Famous Quotes - Tags - Conscience
- ... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed... More
- 1st Murderer. Where’s thy conscience now?...
2nd Murderer. I’ll not meddle with it. It... More
- A clear conscience is a sure card. More
- A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers,... More
- A good man with a good conscience doesn’t walk so fast. More
- A man’s conscience and his judgement is the same thing; and as the judgement, so also the... More
- A quiet conscience makes one so serene!
Christians have burnt each other, quite... More
- A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking... More
- Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don’t want to... More
- All humans have a heart that can tell right from wrong. More
- Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible... More
- Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that... More
- Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience. More
- Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is... More
- Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?—In the... More
- Are you one who looks on? Or one who lends a hand?—Or one who looks away, steps aside? ...... More
- Bachelors have consciences. Married men have wives. More
- Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil,... More
- Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience—this is what you get if you haven’t sinned. More
- But even suppose blood should flow. Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is... More
- But that’s always the way; it don’t make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a... More
- Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but... More
- Conscience ... lacks the power to externalize itself, the power to make itself into a Thing, and... More
- Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. More
- Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. More
- Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. More
- Conscience is God present in man. More
- Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it. More
- Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you. More
- Conscience is the heart of Heaven. More
- Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. More
- Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption. More
- Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. More
- Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others. More
- Conscience makes egotists of us all. More
- Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and... More
- Conscience. That stuff, that stuff can drive you nuts. More
- Conscience: self-esteem with a halo. More
- Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than... More
- Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a... More
- Do you want to go on together? Or go ahead? Or go it alone? ... You have to know what you want... More
- Dutton Peabody: No, no, no, you don’t. No. I’m a newspaperman not a politician. Politicians... More
- Each man’s private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought... More
- Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,—shipwrecks and hurricanes... More
- Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or... More
- Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. More
- I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions. More
- I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that... More
- I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as... More
- I keep having the same experience and keep resisting it every time. I do not want to believe it... More
- I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or... More
- I need not say what match I would touch, what system endeavor to blow up; but as I love my life,... More
- I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of... More
- I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. More
- I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on,—s’pose you’d a done right and give Jim up;... More
- I was by degrees awakened as from a dream, and feared that my whole life could properly be... More
- I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded... More
- I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and... More
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man’s conscience,... More
- If anyone has a conscience it’s generally a guilty one. More
- If murder is forgiven, Heaven will find it hard to bear. More
- If we train our conscience, it kisses us as it bites. More
- In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. More
- In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are... More
- In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and... More
- Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be... More
- It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts... More
- It don’t make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person’s conscience ain’t got... More
- It is a fact that we have got to render an account for the deeds done in the body. More
- It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does... More
- It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious... More
- I’ll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still. More
- Love is too young to know what conscience is,
Yet who knows not conscience is born of... More
- Love’s way of dealing with us is different from conscience’s way. Conscience commands; love... More
- Many, no doubt, are well disposed, but sluggish by constitution and habit, and they cannot... More
- Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience. More
- My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several... More
- Near by is an interesting ruin—the meagre remains of an ancient heathen temple—a place where... More
- No man ever stood lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that... More
- Not fear
but a stirring
of wonder makes me
catch my breath when I feel
the tug of... More
- Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!—The sting... More
- O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! More
- O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! More
- Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?
And what has he been after that... More
- One good Man may take another’s Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust... More
- Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new... More
- Out, damned spot; out I say. More
- Pangs of conscience are the sadistic stirrings of Christianity. More
- People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point... More
- Perhaps a man like you can’t realize what it is to have a conscience and no memory at all. Do... More
- Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay... More
- Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very... More
- She had no longer any relish for her once favorite amusement of reading. And mostly she disliked... More
- Shirley: I wouldn’t have your conscience, not for all your income. Undershaft: I wouldn’t... More
- Something is very gently,
invisibly, silently,
pulling at me a thread
or net of... More
- Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive
Against thy mother aught. Leave her to... More
- The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. More
- The bite of conscience, like a dog biting a stone, is a stupidity. More
- The common consolation which some good christian or other, is hourly administering to... More
- The first duty of a conscientious person is to have his or her conscience absolutely under his or... More
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