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Conscience Quotes - Page 6

The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.

The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.

William O. Douglas
Constitution, Nations, Conscience

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

William Ellery Channing
Free Will, Strikes, Conscience
William Ellery Channing, George Channing (1849). “(XXX, 387 p.)”, p.13

The only valid voice of one's reputation is that spoken by one's conscience.

Wes Fesler
Voice, Reputation, Conscience

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

Walter Scott
Blow, Sake, Conscience
Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1846). “Rob Roy”, p.166

Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.

Tom Clancy
Believer, True Believer, Conscience

The law is the public conscience.

Thomas Hobbes
Law, Conscience
Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.173, Hackett Publishing

Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.

Thomas Adams
Soul, Deputies, Conscience

If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death.

Thomas a Kempis
Fear Of Death, Ifs, Conscience
Thomas A Kempis, Wyatt North (1617). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.29, Wyatt North Publishing, LLC

There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.

Sylvia Townsend Warner
Littles, Rooms, Conscience
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1966). “Swans on an Autumn River: Stories”

Go by your own conscience.

Steve Chabot
Conscience

Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.

Stephen Covey
Heart, Age, Conscience
Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

Conscience is the pulse of reason

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pulse, Reason, Conscience

I value people with a conscience. It's like a beeper from God.

Robert Orben
People, Conscience, Values

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Eight, Conscience
Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “David Balfour: Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona”, p.91, Trajectory Inc

Live so as to have a quiet conscience.

Richard L. Evans
Quiet, Conscience

Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Comfort, Conscience

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Men, Conscience
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

The wounds of conscience always leave a scar.

Publilius Syrus
Scar, Conscience, Wounds

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

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

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

Noam Chomsky
Revolution, Conscience

There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience.

Michelangelo Antonioni
Censorship, Conscience
Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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

Michel de Montaigne
Law, Customs, Conscience

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

Menander
Mortals, Conscience

I have no boss but my conscience.

Mehmet Murat Ildan
Boss, Conscience

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

Max Frisch
Guilty, Ifs, Conscience
Max Frisch (1992). “Three Plays”

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