If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
Charlotte BrontëTags: innocence conscience
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
George WashingtonTags: conscience
Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
François RabelaisTags: science conscience
Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.
Jim CarrollTags: poetry death afterlife conscience ghosts
[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Bertrand RussellTags: morality conscience hell cruelty dishonesty double-standards
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
H.L. MenckenTags: humor ethics conscience definitions inner-voice
The Seven Social Sins are:
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.
Tags: science money politics principle happiness knowledge morality wealth humanity work pleasure conscience sin character worship misattributed-to-gandhi sacrifice sins commerce
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
Mark TwainTags: humor conscience memory
Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience. 'I feel really guilty about getting drunk last night,' we say, when in actual fact we feel no guilt whatsoever or, at least, we could choose to feel no guilt. When people say to me, 'I drank too much last night,' I always reply, 'I drank exactly the right amount.
Tom HodgkinsonTags: conscience drinking guilt
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.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: politics conscience right
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