Conscience Quotes - Page 8

• The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

  Madame de Stael

  Mistake, Voice, Political

  "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.

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• To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason. Two forces within the individual contribute to the development of his conscience and of his morality: reason and sensitivity.

  Leon Bourgeois

  Religious, Philosophy, Men

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• It is quite certain that, if from childhood men were to begin to follow the first intimations of conscience, honestly to obey them and carry them out into act, the power of conscience would be so strengthened and improved within them, that it would soon become, what it evidently is intended to be, "a connecting principle between the creature and the Creator."

  John Campbell Shairp

  Men, Childhood, Principles

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 156), 1895.

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• What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Women, Wine

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.55, Lulu.com

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• I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

  Lillian Hellman

  Fashion, Cutting, Long Ago

  Letter to John S. Wood, 19 May 1952.

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• Love is too young to know what conscience is.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Young, Knows

  William Shakespeare, Gwynne Blakemore Evans, Anthony Hecht (1996). “The Sonnets”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Book, Married, Clear

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• It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Country, Freedom

  Following the Equator ch. 20, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

  Mark Twain

  Hair, Mouths, Uneasy

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread and racial discrimination all these evils are far too prevalent to be overlooked.

  Rene Cassin

  Racism, Evil, Freedom Of Speech

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• Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Creativity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Incessant, Loud, Strokes

  Michel de Montaigne (1850). “Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.193

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• The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Play, Acting

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [641]

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• Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are within the world 'order' and those who are excluded is widening day by day. The use of leading-edge technologies has made it possible to accumulate wealth in a way that is fantastic but perverse because it is unjustly distributed. Twenty-percent of humankind control eighty percent of all means of life. That fact creates a dangerous imbalance in the movement of history.

  Leonardo Boff

  Mean, Technology, Order

  Leonardo Boff (2001). “The Prayer of Saint Francis: A Message of Peace for the World Today”, p.43, Orbis Books

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• So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

  Dante Alighieri

  Rivers, Heaven, Grace

  "Purgatorio (Divine Comedy, Book 2)". Book by Dante Alighieri (Canto XIII), 1321.

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• I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

  Lillian Hellman

  Fashion, Peace, Integrity

  Letter to John S. Wood, 19 May 1952.

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• Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

  Josh Billings

  Wise, Mistake, Doe

  Josh Billings (1913). “Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised”

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• There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speech in Washington, D.C., kinginstitute.stanford.edu. March 31, 1968.

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• What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look on his face then, but it was gone in a flash. It had been a simple moment of peace and joy and pure happiness. That voice made Hale happy. It kept him calm. It was his backup and his conscience. Macey couldn't help herself, she envied him.

  Ally Carter

  Simple, Voice, Joy

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• Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious man should live and die in misery. He was entitled to some degree of sympathy and security. Our conscience declared against the honest workman's becoming a pauper, but our eyes told us that he very often did.

  Frances Perkins

  Eye, Men, Ethical Principles

  Frances Perkins (1934). “People at work”

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• Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Encouragement, Freedom

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• '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.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Being Strong, Perseverance

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.44, Rowman & Littlefield

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

  George Washington

  Integrity, 4th Of July, Fire

  Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour. Sparks 'Life of Washington' (1839) vol. 2, p. 109

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• Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Medicine, Moral

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.61, Univ of California Press

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