Conscience Quote by Izaak Walton

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.

— Izaak Walton

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Nothing is worth the loss of one's conscience, or the ability to do what is right.”

— Kathleen Morgan

An overblown conscience is an empty conscience.

— Pascal Bruckner

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place…

— Izaak Walton

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

— Oliver Goldsmith

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.

— Hannah Arendt

Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.

— Khalil Gibran

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

— Evan Esar

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A guilty conscience need no accusser

— Russyb

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe