Conscience Quotes

CONSCIENCE QUOTES

quotations about conscience

A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King Henry VIII

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Conscience is the tongue of Heaven.

HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS

Twenty-Four Sermons Preached in All Souls Church, New York

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Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet

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If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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What we call conscience, in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the constable.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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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

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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

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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

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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

H.L. MENCKEN

A Mencken Chrestomathy

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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

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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

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Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

JOSÉ SARAMAGO

All the Names

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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

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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

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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

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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

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A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Look at the Bees

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To carry conscience well and nobly is a moral beauty, as carrying the head well is a physical grace.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

Essays

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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to suit this year's fashions.