Conscience Quotes - Page 6

• The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Church, States

  1963 Strength to Love.

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• We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Communication, Men, Should Have

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.196

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• A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Morning, Men, World

  Douglas William Jerrold (1858). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's Wit: Together with Selections, Chiefly from His Contributions to Journals, Intended to Illustrate His Opinions”, p.201

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• The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, World, Miserable

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.25

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• Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Powerful, Farewell, Justice

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• It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Flames, Mind

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• The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Cities, Heaven, Age

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.3

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• As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.

  Ovid

  Men, Evil, Mind

  Ovid (1851). “The Fasti ; Tristia ; Pontic epistles ; Ibis ; and Halieuticon of Ovid”, p.31

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• Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him; yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Judging, Benches

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• The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition enjoy their own acts of beneficence equally with those to whom they are done, so there are scarce any natures so entirely diabolical as to be capable of doing injuries without paying themselves some pangs for the ruin which they bring on their fellow-creatures.

  Henry Fielding

  Believe, Men, Evil

  Henry Fielding (1975). “The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling”, p.765, Wesleyan University Press

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• One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

  Alexander Pope

  Years, Self, Hours

  Alexander Pope (1776). “An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With notes, critical and explanatory”, p.30

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• O Conscience, into what abyss of fears
  And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which
  I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.

  John Milton

  Fear, Loss, Way

  John Milton (1871). “The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti”, p.174

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• Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.

  Jeremy Collier

  Fire, Water, Elements

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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• Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention.

  Jeremy Collier

  Pain, Fighting, Men

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.106

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• Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

  Hannah Arendt

  Home, Ifs And, Anticipation

  Hannah Arendt (1978). “The Life of the Mind: Thinking”

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• A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Food, Men, Cooking

  The Young Duke bk. 1, ch. 14 (1831)

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• Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.

  Philip Massinger

  Wealth, Neighbor

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• There is no college for the conscience.

  Theodore Parker

  College

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Sermons of Religion”, p.53

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Strong, Men, Innocence

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• Be mine that silent calm repast,
  A conscience cheerful to the last:
  That tree which bears immortal fruit,
  Without a canker at the root;
  That friend which never fails the just,
  When other friends desert their trust.

  Nathaniel Cotton

  Roots, Tree, Cheerful

  John Gilbert Cooper, Nathaniel Cotton (1822). “The Poems of Cooper, and Cotton”, p.274

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• The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Long, Goes On, May

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• Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Accusers

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• It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Giving, Coins, Bills

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• Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Strength, Justice, Coward

  1766 The Vicar of Wakefield, ch.13.

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

  Albert Camus

  Art, Hipster, Needs

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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