CONSCIENCE QUOTES
quotations about conscience
If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Conscience is the tongue of Heaven.
HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS
Twenty-Four Sermons Preached in All Souls Church, New York
What we call conscience, in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the constable.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Henry VIII
Between the radiant white of a clear conscience and the coal black of a conscience sullied by sin lie many shades of gray--where most of us live our lives. Not perfect but not beyond redemption.
SHERRY L. HOPPE
A Matter of Conscience
It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.
MARK TWAIN
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal; and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he cross the churchyard at dusk.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
My Novel; Or, Varieties in English Life
On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
"Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution", March 31, 1968
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
H.L. MENCKEN
A Mencken Chrestomathy
Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.
JOSÉ SARAMAGO
All the Names
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
Jane Eyre
Conscience is like God's herald and messenger; it does not command things on its own authority, but commands them as coming from God's authority, like a herald when he proclaims the edict of the king.
ST. BONAVENTURE
attributed, The Catholic Mind Through Fifty Years: 1903-1953
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Look at the Bees
Conscience is a Jewish invention, it is a blemish like circumcision.
ADOLF HITLER
Hitler Speaks
Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
"Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation", The Writings of George Washington
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Richard III
My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.
DAVID SEDARIS
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
To carry conscience well and nobly is a moral beauty, as carrying the head well is a physical grace.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
Essays
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to suit this year's fashions.
LILLIAN HELLMAN
letter to House Committee on Un-American Activities, May 19, 1952