Conscience Quotes

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinion of others. Sir Henry Taylor

Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience’s sake. Blaise Pascal

Courage without conscience is a wild beast. Robert G Ingersoll

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. Harper Lee

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. H. L. Mencken

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. Albert Einstein

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without. Joseph Addison

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions. Lillian Hellman

I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong to gain the huzzahs of thousands, or the daily praise of all the papers which come from the press; I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery. Lord Mansfield

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. George Washington

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. Omar Bradley

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. George Bancroft

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. Karl Barth

Conscience is the living law, and honour is to this law what piety is to religion. Jean de Boufflers

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great. William Ellery Channing

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not. Dante Alighieri

Building a conscience is what discipline is all about. The goal is for a youngster to end up believing in decency, and acting – whether anyone is watching or not – in helpful and kind and generous, thoughtful ways. James L Hymes

A man never outlives his conscience, and that, for this cause only, he cannot outlive himself. Robert South.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. H L Mencken

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. Michel Foucault

I believe that conscience is a still small voice and not a loudspeaker. Clement Attlee

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

A quiet conscience makes one so serene. Lord Byron

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

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children. Mary McCarthy

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience. Euripides

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. Doug Horton

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. Thomas De Quincey