Conscience reasoning Quotes

“Listen to your conscience. You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life.”

“Between the radiant white of a clear conscience and the coal black of a conscience sullied by sin lie many shades of gray--where most of us live our lives. Not perfect but not beyond redemption.”

“I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.”

“It’s easy to tune out your critics, but difficult to turn off your conscience.”

“Conscience. Imagine being pursued by your own conscience….A mountain of conscience. Throwing a lengthening shadow. Growing. Darkening.”

“I would sooner have the approval of my own conscience and know that I had done my duty than to have the praise of all the world and not have the approval of my own conscience. A man's own conscience, when he is living as he should live, is the finest monitor and the best judge in all the world. Men can accuse you of wrong-doing, and it has no effect at all if you know they lie and you have done that which is right”

“When we criticize people, their consciences console them. When we love them, their consciences indict them.”

“A standing prick hath no conscience. And if that standing prick is attached to Bruce Robertson then it hath less than no conscience. You can't afford a conscience in this life, that has become a luxury for the rich and a social ball and chain for the rest of us. Even if I wanted one, which I certainly do not, I wouldn't have the faintest idea as how to go about getting one.”

“Liberty of conscience (when people have consciences) is rightly considered the most indispensable of liberties.”