Conscience Quotes
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
Channing, William Ellery
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
Clarke, James Freeman
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
Cook, Joseph
Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
Frank, Anne
Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.
Fromm, Erich
The paradoxical -- and tragic -- situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
Jung, Carl
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'
King Jr., Martin Luther
An individual who breaks a 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 the law.
Lincoln, Abraham
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Mencken, H.L.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Origen
Conscience is the chamber of justice.
Reeve, Christopher
I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.
Reverdy, Pierre
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
Twain, Mark
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Walton, Izaak
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.