conscience quotes

• Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it. (Albert Einstein) [conscience/state]
• A good conscience is a continual feast. (Robert Burton) [conscience/feast]
• Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us. (Henry Fielding) [conscience/thing]
• Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. (John Milton) [give/conscience]
• A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without. (Joseph Addison) [conscience/health/soul & body/more]
• Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down. () [monologue/god/conscience/tears]
• A good conscience is a continual feast. (Francis Bacon) [conscience/feast]
• Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. (Jean Baudrillard) [conscience/society]
• Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. () [conscience]
• The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man. ( Napoleon I) [conscience]
• Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. (Samuel Butler) [conscience/wish]
• By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. (Albert Camus) [government/conscience/more]
• In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me. (William Congreve) [conscience/soul & body]
• They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience. (Joseph Conrad) [conscience]
• 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) [conscience/people/science/reproach]
• To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. (Benjamin Disraeli) [conscience/knowledge]
• Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. (Albert Einstein) [conscience/state]
• Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us. (Henry Fielding) [conscience/thing]
• Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. (Michel Foucault) [conscience/more/goodwill]
• Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us. (Sigmund Freud) [conscience/perception/wish]
• The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison. (Paul Gauguin) [conscience/family/love/vow]
• Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. (Nathaniel Hawthorne) [conscience]
• It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. (Thomas Jefferson) [conscience/change]
• The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain. (Samuel Johnson) [conscience]
• One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. (Martin Luther King) [right/conscience/order/conscience]
• I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law. (Martin Luther King) [right/conscience/conscience/reality]
• Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. (Walter Lippmann) [conscience/life/condition/change]
• There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual. (James Lowell) [more/conscience/life]
• You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you. (Martin Luther) [conscience/feelings/more/lord]
• I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. (Martin Luther) [willpower/conscience/right/help]
• Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. (Harriet Martineau) [conscience]

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