Conscience quotes

Anonymous

Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.

Berlin Sir Isaiah 1909-1997

Two Concepts of Liberty

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Bradley Omar 1893-1981

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear  giants and ethical infants.

Butler Samuel 1835-1902

Further Extracts from Notebooks

Conscience is thoroughly well - bred and soon leaves  off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not stregth enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Hastings Lewis

The fact is that the possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784

Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God.

Joyce James 1882-1941

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the
uncreated conscience of my race ... Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

Landor Walter Savage 1775-1864

A man's vanity tells him what is honour; a man's consience what is justice.

Lloyd George David 1863-1945

(of Ramsay MacDonald)

Sufficient conscience to bother him, but not  sufficient to keep him straight.

Mencken H.L. 1880-1956

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Mencken H.L. 1880-1956

A Little Book in C major

Conscience: the inner voice which warns us  that someone may be looking.

Milton John 1608-1674

Areopagitica

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue  freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Saphir Moritz G.

The mirror is the conscience of women; they never do a thing without first consulting it.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Hamlet

The play's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Hamlet

Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
It sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Henry VI, Part 2

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Henry VIII

A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Richard III

Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.

Sheridan Richard Brinsley 1751-1816

The Duenna

Conscience has no more to do with  gallantry than it has with politics.

Smith Logan Pearsall 1865-1964

Afterthought's „Other People"

Most people sell their souls, and live with  a good conscience on the proceeds.

Thoreau Henry David 1817-1862

What is morality but immemorial custom?
Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

Thurlow Edward 1731-1806

(attributed)

Dit you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked.

Thurlow Edward 1731-1806

As guardian of His majesty's conscience.

Valéry Paul 1871-1945

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

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