Conscience Quotes

What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It’s having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.

~ Bob Barr

We become equally responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong but remain silent because we think it is right.

~ Suzy Kassem

For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. -

~ Anonymous

Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience.

~ Doug Cooper

Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain.

~ Angelica Hopes

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

~ Joyce Meyer

Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.

~ Denis Waitley

He shrugged, ...my conscience rests easiest if I do only what I see as best in the moment...

~ Anihyr Moonstar

Human life is inherently dualistic. It consists of or is explicable as two fundamental entities, including rivalries between subject and object, mind and matter, and conflict between the benevolent and the malevolent forces. Opposition in the universe creates a dynamic living universe composed of good and evil, body and soul. Human thoughts and feelings are the communal products of the conscious and unconscious mind’s interpretation of a constant flow of coded and symbolic dialogue.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Atheist: 'I hear the voice of conscience, but I deny the reality of God.' St. Thomas: 'That is like listening to someone speak, but denying that anyone is there.' Atheist: 'That's right; nobody is.' St. Thomas: 'Then you deny not only God but conscience, because you consider it a hallucination.' Atheist: 'I misspoke. What I meant to say is that when I am listening to conscience, I am really listening to myself.' St. Thomas: 'Then you still deny conscience, because you deny its authority to judge you. Instead you claim to judge yourself, but no one can be judge in his own case.

~ J. Budziszewski

If I have to die either for religion or atheism I would prefer atheism, since my conscience will respect my rational decision.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

In this sense every serious choice has a tragicomic dimension. For it is impossible to be a human being without choosing, and it is impossible to choose without value denials, and it is impossible to deny values without guilt. That is a very simple though, but it forms the core definition of guilt: an awareness of significant value loss for which I know myself to be responsible. Guilt is the self-knowing of moral loss.

~ Thomas C. Oden

True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?

~ Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience.

~ Harper Lee

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

It's a sin only if conscience confirmed it.

~ Toba Beta

If you cannot give God glory for something, you should not do it. If a person is not fully persuaded that an activity is pleasing to God, then it is a sin: whatsoever is not of faith is sin (Romans 14:23)

~ Alan De Jager

we were made to be like this; filled with ashes and feels, burning down to what we dont want to be and what we dont want to see. sins? they are just a choice.

~ Malaika Tanweer

The authority of the Church was thrown over by the authority of the state. Twenty years only have passed, and the authority of the state is already thrown over by the authority of conscience. ... I fear for those yet unborn, that they are already betrayed. Robbed of the truth we can inherit, they will know their sins as only misery, and their forgiveness they will not know at all because they do not know God. Then at last men will be free of God. Then they will be slaves indeed.

~ Lucy Beckett

In life I would much prefer to be sinned upon than the sinner. It is easier, vous comprenez? With the clear conscience one sleeps very well. The sinner may deny it… but in his heart he knows. He does not deserve to be happy.

~ Nikki Sex

Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of good and evil. For a man's conscience and his judgement are the same thing, and as the judgement, so also the conscience may be erroneous.

~ Thomas Hobbes

For the second time since meeting her, Echo looked as if I’d slapped her. Water pooled at the bottom edges of her eyes, her cheeks flushed red and she blinked rapidly. She’d succeeded in making me feel like a d*ck … again.

~ Katie Mcgarry

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. —STEVEN WRIGHT

~ Darynda Jones

Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason which the employment of coercion necessarily destroys. The liberal has faith in the individual – faith that he can be persuaded by rational means to beliefs compatible with social good.

~ Harold Edmund Stearns

Find out what faith is and how you can put it into practice.Learn how to pray, and do it.Discover what pride is, and get rid of it.Develop a self-concept that is adequate and accurate.Clarify your values.Identify your talents.Probe the fact, meaning, and use of your sexuality. Face the fact that you engage in self-deception. Reflect on truth that you are made in the image of God. Use your spiritual gift. Clear your conscience. Feel deeply.Enjoy life. Face death.Treat your body right.Conquer the flesh. Depend on the Holy Spirit. Be humble.

~ J. Grant Howard

Without my voice and spirit I am dust. This is not what I want, but what I must.

~ Mike Bartlett

This feeling of guilt is your conscience calling your attention to the higher road, and your heart wishing you had taken it.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A hero is a person who, without a second thought, simply does the right thing because his conscience cannot live with any other choice.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Integrity is more than truth and honesty; integrity is an unshackled mind, a happy heart, and a light spirit. Integrity is inner peace with a clear, clean conscience. Integrity is self-respect, honor, and credibility. Integrity is healthy and unfettering, and it is worth defending.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

...but before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself.The one thing that doesn't abide by mojority rule is a person's conscience.

~ Harper Lee

...but before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

~ Harper Lee

What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?

~ Michel De Montaigne

How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to ‘draw the line,’ and we showed up with an eraser?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The most important and uniquely glorious element of Buddha’s character was that, he did not compel his pupils to be slaves either to his teachings or to himself, but like a conscientious human, demanded from his followers to accept his words not merely out of regard for him but after subjecting them to a thorough examination. And this is where Buddha stands out from the crowd of self-proclaimed prophets.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

~ Oscar Wilde

You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It’s important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death.

~ Henry V. O'neil

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.

~ Sigmund Freud

-“Why do men like you do the job you do? It can’t be for the medals. And it’s certainly not the money.”Stone said nothing.-“Why then? God and country?”-“Both simpler and more complex, Mr. President.”-“What then?”-“So I can look at myself in the mirror.

~ David Baldacci

I mean it, it’s another gap in your education. Until you can learn to understand her, you’ll get nowhere as a detective. She’s everybody’s conscience, Bob—the universal maiden aunt, cousin or sister. Humanity’s backbone. Throughout history, she’s gone to the stake for you again and again; not with any sense of heroism, but as a matter of principle and because it would never occur to her to do anything else.

~ Heron Carvic