Conscience Quote by Geraldine Jewsbury Download Open image “One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.” — Geraldine Jewsbury ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conscience Crime Ethics Folly Reproach
There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul. — Vikram Chatwal Copy Share Image
Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“Because of the matrix of rampant horrors often described as overcriminalization, it is no longer possible for you to rely on your own conscience… — James Duane Copy Share Image
“The word conscience covers as a matter of fact several different feelings; the simplest of these is the fear of being found out. You,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what… — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for… — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some special sin… — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish… — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of… — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience. — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I am. At… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image