Conscience Quotes

He had a clear conscience. Never used it.

~ Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Don't you think it's good to serve your country?' I asked. 'No, I don't,' Mr Peterson said. 'I think it's good to serve your principles. And in the army you don't get to pick and choose your fights according to your conscience. You kill on command. Don't ever surrender your right to make your own moral decisions, kid.

~ Gavin Extence

How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us born with no conscience at all?

~ Dan Skinner

[L]uxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see that, if one doesn’t wish. You’re free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience. (Ancillary Justice)

~ Caitlín R. Kiernan

It may be necessary to make compromises in everyday politics, but we cannot compromise with our conscience.

~ Ludwig Erhard

If this inner and critical voice has kept you safe for many years as your inner voice of authority, you may end up not being able to hear the real voice of God.

~ Richard Rohr

~ Tolerance increases hope between people and their voice of conscience.

~ Vasilios Karpos

You’ll have to be my conscience.” He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. “Mine isn’t going to grow back.

~ Nalini Singh

Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back.

~ Martha Stout

Mother: What more can we be?Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that's how he died.

~ Arthur Miller

Arrogance makes you stronger from outside, but even more weaker from inside.

~ Ujas Soni

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

Selfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character.

~ Saru Singhal

At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, planted her knee upon his breast! How many times, thrown to the ground by the light, had he cried to it for mercy!

~ Victor Hugo

God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was answerable.

~ Jules Verne

I would sooner have the approval of my own conscience and know that I had done my duty than to have the praise of all the world and not have the approval of my own conscience. A man's own conscience, when he is living as he should live, is the finest monitor and the best judge in all the world. Men can accuse you of wrong-doing, and it has no effect at all if you know they lie and you have done that which is right

~ Heber J. Grant

Without shame, without conscience.

~ Chris Galford

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.

~ Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Major, I do not know why God does the things He does, but I believe you have the same duty to God as you have always had: to follow the right path, to live your life with a clear conscience.

~ Jeff Shaara

Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.

~ Criss Jami

In case you’re not bright enough to figure it out, there’s a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your phone. I lie, and your conscience stays clear.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls, the bridge that links the creature to the creator

~ Dinesh D'souza

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

~ John Henry Newman

Whenever the conviction of God’s Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey, but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God.

~ Oswald Chambers

All this gave way to my first encounter with guilt, which is still something entirely inscrutable to me, as if aliens were sending transmissions from another planet, telling me there is a right and a wrong in the universe.

~ Donald Miller

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it.

~ Nick Hornby

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

~ Jerome K. Jerome

I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a certain attitude, to have a clean conscience, but also to make a living. I was twenty-five. I had been told that one must make a living, and I believed it.

~ Marcel Duchamp

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

~ Hillary Clinton

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

~ Leo Tolstoy

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

~ B. C. Forbes

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

~ Matt Drudge

That sacred space of conscience where you can exercise your rights in terms of religious freedom and deeply-held, reasonable beliefs is the core of human dignity. In fact, that's the basis for civilization itself. And when you lose that fundamental principle... you have no basis on which to build.

~ Jeff Fortenberry

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

~ Aleister Crowley

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

~ George Eliot

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

~ Martha Reeves