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Conscience Quotes (page 7)

The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers who had succeeded in stealing a throne required a reign of adventures, shady transactions, sold consciences, bought women, and rampant drunkenness. Emile Zola
John Steinbeck quote: "What pillow can one have like a good conscience?"
What pillow can one have like a good conscience? John Steinbeck
Thou knowest that these things which I say are true, and that I was never delighted in my own praise, for the secret of a good conscience is in some sort diminished, when by declaring what he hath done, a man receiveth the reward of fame. Boethius
Michael Connelly quote: "Don't go growing a conscience on me," I said. "I've been down..."
Don't go growing a conscience on me," I said. "I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good. Michael Connelly
Alan Moore quote: "The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences."
The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences. Alan Moore
With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny. Jose Saramago
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts"
If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts Friedrich Nietzsche
In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential. Thomas S. Monson
Many liberals believe in G-d; many conservatives do. What matters is not whether people believe in G-d but what text, if any, they believe to be divine. Those who believe that He has spoken through a given text will generally think differently from those who believe that no text is divine. Such people will usually get their values from other texts, or more likely from their conscience and heart. Dennis Prager
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice. Marquis de Sade
It may indeed be said that the word is never a more splendid mystery than when it travels in a man's mind from thought to conscience and back again to thought. Victor Hugo
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom..."
Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him. Fyodor Dostoevsky
They became desperate for an antidote, such as coziness & color. They tried to bury the obligatory white sofas under Thai-silk throw pillows of every rebellious, iridescent shade of Magenta, pink, and tropical green imaginable. But the architect returned, as he always does, like the conscience of a Calvinist, and he lectured them and hectored them and chucked the shimmering little sweet things out. Tom Wolfe
Tom Clancy quote: "Even true believers had consciences, Too bad."
Even true believers had consciences, Too bad. Tom Clancy
Victor Hugo quote: "You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my..."
You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience. Victor Hugo

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