Conscience quotations

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◆ I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away. I'm always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

- Edmond Rostand99

◆ I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.

- Tamora Pierce99

◆ No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

- Stefan Zweig99

◆ The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely conforms to the judgments of others. That is not real freedom, and it makes true love impossible, for if we are to love truly and freely, we must be able to give something that is truly our own to another. If our heart does not belong to us, asks Merton, how can we give it to another?

- Jon Katz99

◆ It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.

- Martin Luther99

◆ Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.

- Criss Jami99

◆ In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.

- Jeff Lindsay99

◆ The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

- John Calvin99

◆ Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.

- Thomas Hardy99

◆ Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

- Fran?ois Rabelais99

◆ There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.

- Polybius99

◆ Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

- Anna Godbersen99

◆ There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're getting what they want out of life or not, you can see they don't even try to understand what we're here for. They just don't care.

- Louis-Ferdinand Céline99

◆ Some live life strictly, following each and every rule rigidly. They go by the book and get stuck by the hook. Break free today, let conscience guide your way.

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