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.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

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.

From the senses originate all trustworthiness, all good conscience, all evidence of truth.

Conscience, my dear fellow, is a stick which every one takes up to beat his neighbor and not for application to his own back.

Ultimately our moral sense or conscience becomes a highly complex sentiment – originating in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest, and in later times by deep religious feelings, and confirmed by instruction and habit.