Quotes with conscience

  • I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
  • In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
  • Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
  • A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
  • You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.
  • They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
  • Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.
  • There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
  • I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
  • The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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  • Alphonse De Lamartine A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
    Alphonse De Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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  • Albert Camus A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • William Shakespeare Conscience is but a word that cowards use.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • George Orwell Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Adam Smith What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Alexander Cockburn A ''just war'' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Steven Wright A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Sydney Smith A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Francis Bacon A good conscience is a continual feast.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Doug Larson A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Khaled Hosseini A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Jane Austen A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Thomas Hobbes A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Frank A. Clark A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
    Frank A. Clark
    American politician
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  • William Faulkner A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Walter Savage Landor A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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