No Conscience Quotes

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.

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

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.

Don't go growing a conscience on me," I said. "I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.

I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience.

What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.

Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels.

Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.

It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.

Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what I mean.

There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.

When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us.

I hope you find peace, my brother. (Acheron) Peace walks hand in hand with a quite conscience. (Savitar)

Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.

I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience

We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue.