Conscience Quote by Saint Augustine

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

— Honore de Balzac

Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.

— Philip Massinger

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

— Ellen Glasgow

It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

— Edwin Louis Cole

If you say that a good reputation serves to benefit the neighbor more, I admit that. However, since it should be based on a…

— Vincent de Paul

The conscience of a people is their power.

— John Dryden

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

— Richard Bach

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame…

— Philip Roth

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

— Jakob Dylan