Conscience Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Oneself

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.151, D. H. Lawrence

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• It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Circles, People, Minorities

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street”, p.1130, Everyman's Library

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• Let your conscience be your guide.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Guides, Wish Upon A Star, Animated Movies

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.295, A&C Black

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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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• Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Smile, Yoga, Honor

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• The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Exercise, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Rights, Judging

  "Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau".

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• Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously - and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.

  George W. Bush

  War, Taken, Ambition

  "Bush: Islamic Radicalism Doomed to Fail". edition.cnn.com. October 06, 2005.

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• We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Years, Body, Chill

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• The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

  Max Beerbohm

  Coward, Non Conformist, Conformist

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.142, New York Review of Books

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• In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Dark, Grieving

  1851 Twice- Told Tales,'The Haunted Mind'.

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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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• 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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• Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Ignorance, Racism

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.44, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea.
  Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.

  Jacques Roumain

  Taken, Sacrifice, Alcohol

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• As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.

  James P. Comer

  Children, Moral Development, Self

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• I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a do-gooder base; I was born and raised that way. I was for blacks, whites, Italians, Poles, whatever.

  Frank Gehry

  People, Way, Belief

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time. My father taught me that an actor had to have a social and political conscience, and that the work that he does has to reflect from that.

  Christopher Reeve

  Father, Responsibility, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Bible contains all the extant revelations of God, which He designed to be the rule of faith and practice for his Church; so that nothing can rightfully be imposed on the consciences of men as truth or duty which is not taught directly or by necessary implication in the Holy Scriptures.

  Charles Hodge

  Men, Practice, Church

  CHARLES HODGE (1873). “SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY.”, p.183

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• A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is the spirit of true democracy, and all government by the Priesthood should be actuated by that same high motive.

  David O. McKay

  Men, Rights, Long

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• Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.

  Robert Lowell

  Writing, Mean, Purpose

  Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell (2008). “Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell”

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• A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Intrusion

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and Other Austin Works”, p.537, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out.

  Matthew Henry

  Lord, Candle

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.7662, Harper Collins

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