quotations about conscience
There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
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All Men Are Mortal
Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe;
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Richard III
I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away.
EDMOND ROSTAND
Cyrano de Bergerac
Many men carry their conscience like a drawn sword, cutting this way and that, in the world, but sheathe it, and keep it very soft and quiet, when it is turned within, thinking that a sword should not be allowed to cut its own scabbard.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
He whose conscience thus speaks peace, has something within that renders him superior to all adversity; that charms all fear and sorrow.
WILLIAM MCEWEN
Select Essays Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity
Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't. And the ones with one are divided into those who will act on their conscience and those who won't. Those who will are, I'm afraid, the smallest category.
JEAN FERRIS
Twice Upon a Marigold
Conscience after an evil act is like pulling stockings over muddy boots.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
I know thou art religious,
And hast a thing within thee called conscience,
With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies,
Which I have seen thee careful to observe.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Titus Andronicus
A minority may do for a society what the conscience does for an individual.
JOHN HOWARD YODER
The Priestly Kingdom
Scourges, racks, and flames, can inflict no pains to be compared with the stings and tortures of a guilty conscience.
JOHN THORNTON
Maxims and Directions for Youth
The wounds of conscience always leave a scar.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
The happy soul, in whose heart this peace of God hath erected her throne, has firmly resolved with Job, that holy sufferer, that his heart shall not reproach him, with any approven guile, so long as he lives. He goes not about to patch up a fatal peace betwixt his conscience and his lusts; (a very common dreadful mistake;) but if iniquity be in his hand, he puts it far away.
WILLIAM MCEWEN
Select Essays Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity
We never do anything so secretly, but that it is in the presence of two witnesses: God, and our own conscience.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
And so ought the conscience to be felt and known sacredly and not worn outside or proclaimed wantonly. There are privacies in the soul which willfully to strip naked is no more virtuous than in the body.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
Essays
Notwithstanding, pestilence may surprise even the castle of motive; and it is a strange power (rising up out of the depth which speech cannot explore, nor thought even think of, as the eye cannot see vision) that by conscience we can lay down rules for conscience and train it by good exercise, which is, for aught we know, as if a member of the body, feeling its own weakness, should set itself at exercise to gain strength.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
Essays
Conscience is the only clue which will eternally guide a man clear of all doubts and inconsistencies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
letter to George Washington, May 10, 1789
Conscience is an exact recorder, that writes every man's history; an inward witness, that will sooner or later speak the whole truth; an impartial judge, whose sentence will acquit or condemn.
JOHN THORNTON
Maxims and Directions for Youth
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
MARTIN LUTHER
On Marriage
I'd fired conscience months back, but it was still hanging around, miserable, unshaven, nowhere else to go.
GLEN DUNCAN
Talulla Rising
Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.
LORD ACTON
postscript of letter to Mandell Creighton, Apr. 5, 1887