Conscience Quotes

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.

Everyone knows that all these big proclamations about honor are really just excuses invented to let people kill each other with a clear conscience.

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment – as well as the prison.[У кого есть она, тот страдай, коль сознает ошибку. Это и наказание ему, – опричь каторги.]

This is how warlike men assuage their consciences—by talk of glory.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

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

Start your killers young, before their consciences are grown. Start them young and they will be lethal.

Society is much more easily soothed than one’s own conscience.

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.[Нет ничего обольстительнее для человека как свобода его совести, но нет ничего и мучительнее.]

From the senses originate all trustworthiness, all good conscience, all evidence of truth.[Von den Sinnen her kommt erst alle Glaubwürdigkeit, alles gute Gewissen, aller Augenschein der Wahrheit.]

Conscience, my dear fellow, is a stick which every one takes up to beat his neighbor and not for application to his own back.[La conscience, mon cher, est un de ces bâtons que chacun prend pour battre son voisin, et dont il ne se sert jamais pour lui.]

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.