Quotes about Conscience

35 quotes about Conscience

Culture is the communication vessel of human conscience.

Culture is the communication vessel of human conscience.

Quote by Costel Zăgan about conscience

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.

Quote by Lester Bangs about conscience

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your...

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Quote by Richard Bach about conscience

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about conscience

If a superior give any order to one who is under him...

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about conscience

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a...

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Quote by Albert Camus about conscience

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes...

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Quote by Albert Camus about conscience

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding...

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about conscience

Above all we should not forget that government is an...

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

Quote by William Godwin about conscience

The only tyrant in the world that I could ever accept is...

The only tyrant in the world that I could ever accept is my own consciousness.

Quote by Mahatma Gandhi about conscience

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his...

Quote by Thomas Paine about conscience

Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Quote by Thomas Paine about conscience

Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do...

Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about conscience

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about conscience

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its...

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Quote by Adam Smith about conscience

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept...

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Quote by William Faulkner about conscience

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Quote by Georges Bataille about conscience

The torture of a bad conscience is the Hell of a living...

The torture of a bad conscience is the Hell of a living soul.

Quote by John Calvin about conscience

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my...

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

Quote by John Oldham about conscience

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however...

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Quote by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu about conscience

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