Conscience Quotes - Page 13

• Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.

  Jules Simon

  Wish, Liberty, Inquisition

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• We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue.

  Lambert of Maastricht

  Order, Calm, Virtue

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• Said an opponent to me after my last protest was sent in, what party would you vote for, if you could? Neither. I would have a moral sentiment party. I would know the private character of my candidate, would know also whether he takes care of his own property - whether he had failed in business - if so, whether he had paid back every dollar of debt as fast as he had earned them. Yes, every candidate should be examined morally, and if it be found that he has not been true to the monitions of conscience in one direction, he cannot or will not be in another.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Party, Character, One Direction

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• ... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of both sexes, for neither suffers alone--is adverse to the happiness, to the development of conscience and to religion, and introduces to the dwellings of wretchedness and despair. The result of this degradation is pride, intemperance, licentiousness--nay, every vice, misery, and degradation.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Daughter, Sex, Pride

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• Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself....We don't speak of a conscience yet in the child who is just acquiring language, but we can see very clearly how language plays an indispensable role in the formation of conscience. In fact, the moral achievement of man, the whole complex of factors that go into the organization of conscience is very largely based upon language.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Men, Play

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• An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if he is not discovered. But our two-year-olds and our three-year- olds experience guilt feelings only when they feel or anticipate disapproval from the outside. In doing this, they have taken the first steps toward the goal of conscience, but there is a long way ahead before the policeman outside becomes the policeman inside.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Taken, Self

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• The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In the course of his rearing the goal of exclusive pleasure seeking must be modified drastically, the fundamental urges must be subject to the dictates of conscience and society, urges must be capable of postponement and in some instances of renunciation completely.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Animal, Pleasure Seeking

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Avoid any semblance of pornography. It is dangerous and addictive. If you continue to view pornography, your spirit will become desensitized and your conscience will erode.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Views, Erode, Spirit

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• It is always possible to be happy by ignoring the sufferings of the millions! People with high conscience can never attain this kind of insensitive happiness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, People, Suffering

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• Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Science, Men, Humanity

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• Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

  Jacque Fresco

  Environmental, Social, Concern

  "The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War". Book by Jacque Fresco, 2002.

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• Rely upon your own judgment; be true to your own conscience; follow the light that is within you; all outward lights are so many will-o'-the-wisps. There will be those who tell you that you are foolish; that your judgment is faulty; that your conscience is all awry, and that the light within you is darkness; but heed them not. If what they say is true, the sooner you, as a searcher of wisdom, find it out the better, and you can only make that discovery by bringing your powers to the test. Therefore, pursue your course bravely.

  James Allen

  Light, Discovery, Rely Upon

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• In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group; rather, he is a unique, spiritual being with a soul and a conscience.

  Mark Levin

  Spiritual, Unique, Soul

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• Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which he pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.

  William Ellery Channing

  Art, Light, Sky

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.4

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• Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

  George A. Smith

  Listening, Mind, Quiet

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• But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.

  Lord Byron

  Years, Evil, Balance

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

  John Denham

  Names, Slave, Fame

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller”, p.115

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• By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

  Edward T. Hall

  Memories, Mind, Bureaucracy

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• The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Law, Demand, Pseudo

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• You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Talent, Thousand, Journalist

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• Be the master of your will but the servant of your conscience.

  Robin Sharma

  Masters, Servant

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.240, Jaico Publishing House

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• Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Real, Discovery, Law

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.162, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that being a natural and unalienable right. To guard a man's house as his castle, to pay public and enforce private debts with the most exact faith, can give no title to invade a man's conscience, which is more sacred than his castle, or to withhold from it that debt of protection for which the public faith is pledged by the very nature and original conditions of the social pact.

  James Madison

  Exercise, Men, Law

  James Madison (1865). “Letters and other writings of James Madison”, p.479

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• We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason. It helps think clearly, judge sanely. It strengthens the action of our will.

  Thomas Merton

  Eye, Thinking, Giving

  "Thoughts in Solitude". Book by Thomas Merton, 1956.

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• Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has hopes, fears, ambitions, creative urges, that transcend the purposes of his society. Therefore we have a long history of freedom, where people try to extricate themselves from tyranny for the sake of art, for the sake of science, for the sake of religion, for the sake of the conscience of the individual - this freedom is necessary for the individual.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Art, Ambition, Two

  "The Mike Wallace Interview". www.hrc.utexas.edu. April 27, 1958.

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