Conscience Quotes

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Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other peopleâ€™s misery. They lie when it suits them and donâ€™t see… — Brenna Yovanoff
Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true… — Criss Jami
The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral… — Henry David Thoreau
Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would not… — Jean de la Bruyere
Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience. — August Strindberg
Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty of… — Giuseppe Mazzini
No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then… — E. M. Forster
When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul… — James Anthony Froude
There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth… — Charles Caleb Colton
Conscience is better served by a myth. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system. — Lauren Zalaznick
Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel… — Ben Jonson
Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in… — Alexander Pope
What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue. — Alexander Pope
One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having given it a… — Joseph Conrad
Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that… — John Selden
Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to… — Pope Francis
You got to wrestle with your conscience. You got to listen to people. It doesn't come so easy to me that this is right and… — George H. W. Bush

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