Conscience Quotes - Page 22

• In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their intellectual sloth for their "principles," to their rhetorical cleverness for their "conscience," and to their regimented conformism for their "philosophy."

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Intellectual, Sloth

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• Mind is the Soul speaking and Conscience is the Spirit speaking.

  Ian Gardner

  Soul, Mind, Spirit

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• I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Thinking, Glasses

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

  William Blake

  Men, Ideas, Knaves

  William Blake (1926). “Preface. General introduction index of symbols. Appendices: The book of Thel. Tiriel. Notes to Reynolds's Discourses. Descriptive catalogue of pictures. 1809. Prose from the Rossetti ms. Table of substituted capitals. Index to foot-notes, &c”, Oxford University Press

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• You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.

  Price Pritchett

  Character, Exercise, Organization

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• We can't achieve excellence through talent alone. Or merely by making technological improvements. We can't even buy our way to excellence, no matter how much money we have available to spend. More dollars will never do it. We have to develop a strong corporate conscience. Ethical muscle. And that doesn't happen by accident either.

  Price Pritchett

  Strong, Achievement, Excellence

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• Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Cleats, Artificial, Turf

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• Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.

  Khalil Gibran

  Judging, Weakness, Execution

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• Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

  John Milton

  Would Be, Virtue

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.309

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• A clere conscience is a sure carde.

  John Lyly

  "Euphues". Book by John Lyly, p. 207, 1578.

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• In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fudge, Stealing, Vain

  James Russell Lowell (1911). “The poetical works”

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• A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blood, Skins, Next

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• The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Clear, Clear Conscience

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• POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pockets, Alive, Sin

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.166, 谷月社

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• PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his nose [in Europe], followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Father, Taken, Europe

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.182, University of Georgia Press

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• OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Law, Deities, Made

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.151, 谷月社

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• EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Religious, Nuts, Affair

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.60, 谷月社

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• PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Tears, Plus, Reasonable

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.171, 谷月社

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• Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

  Budd Schulberg

  Nuts, Stuff, The Waterfront

  "Fictional character: Terry Malloy". "On the Waterfront", www.imdb.com. 1954.

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• I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

  Jim Doyle

  Children, Suffering, Important

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• After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Historical Novels, Venture, Modern

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• There's so few people in this town with a conscience.

  Blake Edwards

  People, Towns

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• Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.

  Caspar Weinberger

  Soul, Should, Nations

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• No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Law, Differences, Moral

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• Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Writing, Agriculture, Farming

  Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion: essays”

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