Conscience Quotes - Page 16

• If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Topics, Trouble, Scholar

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• Public opinion is a second conscience.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Second Chance, Public Opinion, Opinion

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• Corruption is simply crime without conscience.

  George Richard Marek

  Corruption, Crime

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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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• 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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• 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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• Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them and don’t see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without conscience. You just don’t have the capacity for something as honorable as loving another person.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Pain, Lying, People

  Brenna Yovanoff (2011). “The Space Between”, p.245, Penguin

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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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• 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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• We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they staked their rest, their health, their honour and their conscience to acquire it, the price is too high, and there is nothing to be gained by such a bargain.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Class, Envy

  "Of Worldly Goods". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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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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• Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.

  Ben Jonson

  Ambition, Self, Law

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir”, p.258

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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

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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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• The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply sinned against it, were according to their standards and their conscience good men; what was bad in them, what wrought moral evil and cruelty, treason to truth and progress, was not at all in their intentions, in their purpose, in their personal character, but in their opinions.

  Robert Briffault

  Character, Men, Evil

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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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• 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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• 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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• [On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.

  Fanny Kemble

  Husband, Giving, Action

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• The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

  James Russell Lowell

  Failing, Intellect

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.140

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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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• Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Sacrifice, People, Neighbor

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

  George Sand

  Children, Men, Competition

  George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press

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• There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Wrath, Divine Justice

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.204

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• You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively badgering them on what you perceive to be their failures of conscience.

  Carolyn Hax

  People, Like You, Circumstances

  "Carolyn Hax Live: Ignorant of fry equity". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 08, 2016.

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