Conscience Quotes - Page 30

• We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Grateful, People, Justice

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.202

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• I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, War, Mean

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.189, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Satisfaction, Praise

  Samuel Johnson (1833). “The Life of Johnson: with Maxims and Observations: Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Selected from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order”, p.218

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• The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

  George Santayana

  Feelings, Moral, Strongest

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.256, Рипол Классик

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• The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.

  Robert Browning

  Light, Beacons, Bosoms

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.90, Wordsworth Editions

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• No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

  Euripides

  Men, Public Opinion, Earth

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

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• Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Vices, Looks, Tricks

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.121

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• The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights, Government

  William Jennings Bryan (1917). “Heart to Heart Appeals”

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• Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

  Mike Royko

  Hollywood, Likes, Boast

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• Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Disappointment, Drama, Writing

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• Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Spring, Ambition, Cities

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.30

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• The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.

  Paul Gauguin

  Stupid, Struggle, Men

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin”, p.93, Routledge

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• There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Something like a profound suspension of judgment.

  Roland Barthes

  Names, Two, Profound

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• Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

  Joseph Joubert

  Punishment, Soul, Crime

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.

  Susan Sontag

  Becoming One, Ironic, World

  On Photography "Melancholy Objects" (1977)

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• The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.

  Wendell Phillips

  Ideas, Numbers, Long

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• Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?

  Alfred de Vigny

  Giving, Judging, Feelings

  Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.12, BoD – Books on Demand

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• And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

  Frederic Bastiat

  Heart, Names, Liberty

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.41, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

  Isaac Barrow

  Men, Benefits, Should

  Isaac Barrow (1818). “The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow”, p.45

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• Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.

  Stanley Milgram

  Giving, Political, Challenges

  Stanley Milgram (1992). “The Individual in a Social World: Essays and Experiments”, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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• It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.

  Louis Simpson

  Complicated

  Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.191, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.

  Alfred Kazin

  Tragedy, Society, Development

  ALFRED kAZIN (1956). “ON NATIVE GROUNDS An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature”

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• I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my judgment, and according to my conscience. If she approves, well and good. If she does not, or wishes any one to take my place, I am ready to vacate. We are even.

  John C. Calhoun

  Thinking, Wish, South Carolina

  Attributed to John C. Calhoun in Walter J. Miller "Calhoun as a Lawyer and Statesman", part 2 "The Green Bag" (p. 271), June 1899.

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• Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact.

  Rollo May

  Artist, Race, Creating

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Stars, Independent, Men

  "Fulton J. Sheen's Guide to Contentment". Book by Fulton J. Sheen, p. 120, 1967.

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