Quotes
Quotes about Conscience
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. The modern separation of enlightenment and virtue, of thought and conscience, of the intellectual aristocracy from the honest and common crowd is the greatest danger that can threaten liberty.
A bad conscience has a very good memory.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Conscience is the inner voice warning us that someone may be looking.
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good.
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.
All a man can betray is his conscience.
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
