quotations and passages on conscience

Labor to keep alive in your
breast that spark of celestial
fire called conscience.

George Washington

The world does not stand or fall with discoveries or inventions,
nor with the trample of armed hosts and the thunder of bombing planes.
The world stands or falls with the laws of life
which Heaven has written in the human conscience.

Pierre Van Paasen

Conscience, as I understand it, is the impulse to do the right thing
because it is right, regardless of personal ends, and has nothing
to do with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.

Margaret Collier Graham

Conscience is that still, small voice
that is sometimes too loud for comfort.

Bert Murray

The ultimate test of a person's conscience may be his
or her willingness to sacrifice something today for future
generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

Gaylord Nelson

Conscience is God's
presence in humans.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Reason deceives us;
conscience, never.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.

H. Norman Schwarzkopf

It is not because people's
desires are strong that they
act ill; it is because their
consciences are weak.
There is no natural connection
between strong impulses and
a weak conscience. The natural
connection is the other way.

John Stuart Mill

Conscience is the root of all free courage;
if we would be brave, let us obey our conscience.

James F. Clark

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

Harper Lee

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

French Proverb

Conscience, as a mentor, the guide and compass of every act,
leads ever to happiness. When the individual can stay alone
with his or her conscience and get its approval, without knowing
force or specious knowledge, then he or she begins to know
what real happiness is.

William G. Jordan

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Our influence is like a shadow; it may fall
even where we think we've never been.
We also need to realize there are
no "time-outs" or "vacations" we can take
in keeping the Lord's commandments
or being true to our conscience.
Stay on track with what you know is right!

unattributed

If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your
conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you will
never have real wealth based on peace of mind.

Napoleon Hill

The needle of our conscience is as good a compass as any.

Ruth Wolff

Peace of mind just can't be bought.
Trust me: Even if your conscience
doesn't stop you from playing dirty
to get what you want, once you get
it, it will keep you from enjoying it.
As my mother used to say, "A good
conscience is God's eye." Which is
why I always prefer a loss to
an underhanded gain; the one
brings pain at the moment,
the other for all time.

Patti LaBelle

Conscience sometimes speaks with the voice of society,
sometimes with the voice of the heart.
Deep in ourselves we always know the difference.

Jeanne Tardiveau

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

Sigmund Freud

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