Quotes of: Guilty-conscience Keyword

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

Woody Allen

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

William Hague

I would feel so guilty about lying that I would try to stress myself out and work up a headache so I wouldn't have the guilt of not having a bit of the symptom.

Justin Long

When I turn down work, I feel guilty, I feel terrible; I don't know where the next job is going to come from.

Joan Rivers

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Neil Young

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But...

George R.R. Martin

The eye of your mind—your intelligence; the eye of your heart—your conscience; and the eye of your soul—your instinct.

Cephrael's Hand

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

Crime and Punishment

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

A Mencken Chrestomathy

Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience.

Once A Rat

Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.

Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

The Vicar of Wakefield

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

Octavia Butler

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

Rocco Buttiglione

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Sophocles

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

Margaret Deland

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Mahatma Gandhi

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Marguerite Gardiner

All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.

Michael Leunig

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

Michael Moore