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Conscience Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
- Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that…
- In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man;…
- The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have…
- Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
More Conscience Quotes
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early. — Octavia Butler
- Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an… — Frances Perkins
- The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. — B. C. Forbes
- The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental… — Charles Darwin
- The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell… — Arthur Koestler
- It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the… — Benjamin Spock