Conscience Quotes - Page 29

• The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.

  E. B. White

  Giving, Bonus, Rich

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• The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1923). “Letters on Indian Affairs”

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• The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Voice, Finals, Conflict

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.39, Rajpal & Sons

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• People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  People, Looks, Ease

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2015). “Stories and Prose Poems”, p.35, Macmillan

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• Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Iron, Liberty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.71, North Atlantic Books

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• It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Doctrine, Wickedness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.335

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• We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Stupidity, World

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• Feeling is the voice of the body; reasoning is the voice of the mind; conscience is the voice of the spirit.

  Kenneth E. Hagin

  Voice, Feelings, Mind

  Kenneth E. Hagin (1992). “The Real Faith”, Faith Library Publications

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• Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Soul, Bypass, Confession

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.91, BookBaby

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• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Country, Military, Fall

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.44

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• A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.

  Peter Ustinov

  Glimpse

  Peter Ustinov (1969). “The wit of Peter Ustinov”

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• The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Law, Customs

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• The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Would Be, Way, Glory

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.830, 谷月社

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• Policy sits above conscience.

  William Shakespeare

  Expediency, Policy

  1605 First Stranger.Timon of Athens, act 3, sc.2, l.87-8.

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• Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Apples, Opinion

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• When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the public consciousness -- it has also become a part of the public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy begin to hum.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  People, Democracy, Legs

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• History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.

  Arthur Koestler

  Arthur Koestler (2009). “Darkness at Noon: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.

  Arthur Koestler

  Pieces, Honest, Silver

  Arthur Koestler (1955). “Darkness at noon”

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• A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Self, Evil

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• No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Utterance, Clients, Oppression

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Equality, Men, Mind

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• We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

  Seneca the Younger

  True Joy, Foundation, Vex

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• Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

  Publilius Syrus

  Life, Law

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 237, 1856.

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• Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Truth, Wings, Two

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• Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Numbers, Soul, Desire

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