conscience quotes

• Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. (H. L. Mencken) [conscience]
• Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. (H. L. Mencken) [conscience]
• Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. (John Milton) [give/conscience]
• We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [memory/conscience/understanding]
• There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. (Ogden Nash) [happiness/conscience]
• Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [more/conscience/power/more]
• Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [conscience/soul & body]
• Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. (George Santayana) [conscience]
• Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience. (Arthur Schopenhauer) [willpower/conscience]
• The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. ( Seneca) [punishment/conscience/sin]
• Conscience does make cowards of us all. (William Shakespeare) [conscience]
• 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) [conscience]
• Love is too young to know what conscience is. (William Shakespeare) [love/conscience]
• A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. (William Shakespeare) [/conscience]
• Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. (Adam Smith) [virtue/more/conscience]
• Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments. (Susan Sontag) [quotations/conscience/more]
• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are. (Mark Twain) [books/conscience/life/more]
• It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. (Mark Twain) [god/speech/conscience/prudence]
• When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation. (John Updike) [faith/reality/conscience/memory]
• Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience (George Washington) [conscience]
• Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film. (Jared Leto) [character/being/conscience/film]
• Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. (Ambrose Bierce) [god/conscience]
• When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it. (Jack Kevorkian) [conscience/right/follow]
• “Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape, ... John Johnson was one of these men.” (Barack Obama) [men/women/conscience/nation]
• I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty. (Simon Wiesenthal) [bad/conscience/bad/conscience]
• Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws. (Robert Peel) [conscience/nation]

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