Conscience Quotes

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

— Victor Hugo

I have a clear conscience.

— Wilhelm Canaris

“The perfect killer has no conscience.”

— Brent Weeks

The world rests on principles.

— Henry David Thoreau

“You can't buy a clean conscience.”

— Jodi Picoult

Religion is no more national than conscience.

— Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

A clere conscience is a sure carde.

— John Lyly

“Fear nothing but your conscience.”

— Suzy Kassem

“Listen to your conscience. It has the power to burn you alive, without killing you.”

— Charles Samuel D'Monte

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

— George Bernard Shaw

The only valid voice of one's reputation is that spoken by one's conscience.

— Wes Fesler

Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.

— William Whewell

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

— Horace

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

— Margaret Atwood

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Doesn't it bother your conscience to know that thousands of trees give up their lives just to keep you in reading matter…

— Sandra Brown

The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.

— Max Horkheimer

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and…

— Martin Sheen

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

— Melvin Laird

Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.

— James McHenry

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

— Ronald Reagan

There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with…

— Agatha Christie

I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but…

— Anton Chekhov

There are nations that resist, voices that attempt to diminish the urgency or dismiss the science, or declare, either in word or…

— Paul Martin

Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame…

— David Mitchell

As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a…

— Stacy Keach

There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies, not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life,…

— Moshe Katsav

President Reagan likes to say Uncle Sam is a kindly old man with a spine of steel, and that he is. But…

— Walter F. Mondale

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result…

— Thomas Jefferson

I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality. The term ‘hero’…

— Irena Sendler

“If a man happen to take it into his head to assassinate with his own hands, or with the sword of justice,…

— Jeremy Bentham

The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is…

— Yehudi Menuhin

As Pope Francis says in Amoris laetitia, pastors must "make room for the consciences of the faithful, who very often respond as…

— John I. Jenkins

There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity,…

— Jimmy Carter

Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms…

— James Joyce

The adolescent frequently supposes that she is breaking out of the confines of her mundane, schoolgirl existence simply in order to break…

— Louise J. Kaplan

I think basic disease care access and basic access to health care is a human right. If we need a constitutional amendment…

— David Katz