Conscience Quotes - Page 17

• A conscience is like a boat or a car. If you feel you need one, rent it.

  JR

  Car, Needs, Boat

  "Remembering J.R. Ewing, Television's Greatest Villain: A Tribute to Larry Hagman" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 24, 2012.

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• I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Law Students, Honest

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams”

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• The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Thinking, Self

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Daniel Breazeale, R. J. Hollingdale (1983). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

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• Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.

  Criss Jami

  Father, Son, Self

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.70, Criss Jami

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• It's always fun to play the innocent, no matter what you're doing. If you feel like you're doing the right thing, you can get away with a lot comedically. I had definitely missed not having a conscience.

  Portia de Rossi

  Fun, Play, Matter

  Source: collider.com

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• How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Lying, Men, Hypocrisy

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.4165, Delphi Classics

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• When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Reflection, Past

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.184

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• All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Men, Law, Land

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• Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.

  George Eliot

  Patterns

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6056, Delphi Classics

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• When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that the injured party has also behaved badly or unfairly in some little matter or other; it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed.

  Stefan Zweig

  Betrayal, Party, Guilt

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lot,That lies too high for base contempt,Too low for envy's shot.

  Robert Southwell

  Lying, Heart, Mean

  Robert Southwell (1856). “The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull”, p.57

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• If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience, and examine thy heart: if thou be guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction: make use of both; so shalt thou distil honey out of gall, and out of an open enemy create a secret friend.

  Francis Quarles

  Home, Heart, Enemy

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.76

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

  William Ellery Channing

  Important, Compass, Objects

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• One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience.

  Puff Daddy

  Weakness, Combs

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• We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Culture, Exploitation

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.

  Elena Kagan

  Jobs, Responsibility, Thinking

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• The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Change, Voice, Growth

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• When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Law, Advice, Immoral

  "Words of Wisdom". Book by Mick Farren, p. 122, 2004.

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• Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

  Alveda King

  Lying, Racism, Faces

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• All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.

  Roger Williams

  War, Men, Plies

  Roger Williams (1963). “Complete Writings”

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• The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.

  Norman Maclean

  Cases, Hardest, Behinds

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.59, University of Chicago Press

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• It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

  John Stuart Mill

  Strong, Men, Desire

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

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• Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.

  Eva Hoffman

  Memories, Past, Conscious

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• What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Character, Maturity

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• Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.

  Julia Quinn

  Names, Want, Lasts

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from May 23, 2010

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