No Conscience Quotes

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience.

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

The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.

Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.

Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.

The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.

Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

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

No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.

I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God.

...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.

The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.

The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.

Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.

Our enemies are our outward consciences.

Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.

Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

There is only one ideal in the world, which is, the light of knowledge – the light of truth.

The human body is not necessarily a human being.

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.

The heart symbolizes the center of our moral, spiritual, and intellectual life. It is the seat of our conscience and life.

Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief on already has.

Highly evolved people have their own conscience as pure law.

Conscience is our wisest counselor and teacher, our most faithful and most patient friend.

Christ can rid you of inner conflict. Man without God is always torn between two urges. His nature prompts him to do wrong, and his conscience urges him to do right.

In your own mind-darkened, will-paralyzed, conscience-dulled soul, God can make the light penetrate and turn the darkness of your own life into day, if you will let Him.

Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars.

Dishonesty is never justified. God will never approve, and even your own conscience will rise up to condemn you sooner or later.

The human conscience is reliable only when it is guided by the Holy Spirit.

Some Christians have an elastic conscience when it comes to their own foibles—and an ironbound conscience when it comes to the foibles of others.

Sin also affects the conscience, until one becomes slow to detect the approach of sin.

There are storms in your own life: storms oftemptation, confusion, and difficulty . . .An uneasy conscience says, “Stop before it is too late!

As a person finds God’s will for his or her life, matters of conscience can be handled with perception from the Holy Spirit.

From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life.

Conscience is the detective that watches the direction of our steps and decries every conscious transgression.

Do not be content to skim through a chapter [of the Bible] merely to satisfy your conscience. Hide the Word of God in your heart.

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.

What pillow can one have like a good conscience?

I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.

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