Quotes of: Guilty-conscience Keyword

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Michel de Montaigne

I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories.

M.F. Moonzajer

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

Sri Aurobindo

The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.

Wadah Khanfar

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.

Jose Saramago

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Voltaire

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Andrew Jackson

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

John Dewey

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.

Jon Meacham

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

Nelson Algren

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Helen Rowland

When will our consciences grow so tender that we are moved to prevent suffering, not just avenge it?

Eleanor Roosevelt

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

Cal Thomas

Il est de toute nécessité que je perde conscience de la réalité individuelle de l'être que je puis être amené à supprimer.

Gabriel Marcel

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Dante Alighieri

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

Jacques Lacan

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.

William Adams

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

Sergio Aragones

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Angela Carter

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Adam Smith