Conscience Quotes

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may… — Lewis H. Lapham
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails… — Joseph Addison
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. — Lucretius
The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. — Thomas Hobbes
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… — Madame de Stael
There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right. — Winston Churchill
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. — Josh Billings
Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us. — Henry Fielding
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. — Max Beerbohm
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law. — Christian Nestell Bovee
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… — Cyril Connolly
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us. — Sigmund Freud
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be;… — George Eliot
Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect. — Dominique Pire

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