Conscience Quotes

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A guilty conscience never feels secure. — Publilius Syrus
Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of… — Nikolai Berdyaev
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. — Henry David Thoreau
I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts. — William Shakespeare
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures,… — Eric Hoffer
Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up… — Joseph Addison
In that disputable point of persecuting men for conscience sake, I see such dreadful consequences rising, I would be as fully convinced of the truth… — Joseph Addison
No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise. — Mark Twain
Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim. — Albert Schweitzer
According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind. — Ovid
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and… — James Joyce
God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and… — John Dryden
No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that… — Michael Novak
The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience. — James Freeman Clarke
The still small voice is wanted. — William Cowper
Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled. — John Milton
You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right,… — Christine Lagarde
My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which… — David Sedaris
The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution. — William O. Douglas

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