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Category: Sin and Conscience

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1. "Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."

Edward Gibbon, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Other categories: Various

2. "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade name of the firm, that is all."

Oscar Wilde

Other categories: Bravery and Fear

3. "Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Other categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Various

4. "A conscience does not prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying it."

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Other categories: Joy and Sadness

5. "Bachelors have consciences. Married men have wives."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Other categories: Marriage

6. "The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."

Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky, "Less Than One: Selected Essays"

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

7. "Conscience: keeps more people awake than coffee."

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

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9. "Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."

Edward Dahlberg, "Alms for Oblivion"

Other categories: Art and Culture

10. "Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."

Josh Billings

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Intellect, Judgement

11. "Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it's hurtful."

Benjamin Franklin

12. "Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep."

Chinese proverb

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

13. "Conviction is the conscience of intellect."

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

14. "The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."

Emma Goldman

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

15. "Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience."

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

Other categories: Good and Evil

16. "Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence."

Dorothy Dix

Other categories: Various

17. "The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness."

St. Thomas Aquinas, "Summa Theologiae"

18. "Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind."

Ogden Nash, "I’m a Stranger Here Myself"

19. "In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage."

Thomas De Quincey, "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater"

20. "Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."

Marilyn Monroe

Other categories: Success and Fame

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21. "One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence."

Ogden Nash, "A Clean Conscience Never Relaxes"

Other categories: Memory

22. "A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience."

Doug Larson

Other categories: Memory

23. "There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."

George Bernard Shaw

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

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

Angela Carter, "Nights at the Circus"

25. "There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

Other categories: Good and Evil

26. "Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged."

St. Jerome, "Epistulae"

Other categories: Work and Laziness -:- Good and Evil

27. "The New England conscience ... does not stop you from doing what you shouldn’t—it just stops you from enjoying it."

Cleveland Amory

28. "Courage without conscience is a wild beast."

Robert G. Ingersoll

Other categories: Bravery and Fear

29. "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."

Mae West

30. "Building a conscience is what discipline is all about."

James L. Hymes, Jr., "Childhood"

Other categories: Education

31. "The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling."

Paula Poundstone

32. "Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others."

Sir Henry Taylor, "The Statesman"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

33. "Saintliness is also a temptation."

Jean Anouilh, "Becket"

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

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Other categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Woman and Man

35. "Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!"

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Other categories: Woman and Man -:- Wit and Humor

36. "Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt."

George Sewell

Other categories: Bravery and Fear

37. "Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him."

Bible

Other categories: Envy

38. "Our senses are the landing ports of our spiritual enemies."

George Whitefield

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

39. "Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil."

Ralph Venning

Other categories: Good and Evil

40. "All sins cast long shadows."

Irish proverb

41. "When a politician wrestles with his conscience, he usually wins."

Joseph Sobran

Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy

42. "Conscience is a man's compass."

Vincent Van Gogh

43. "The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it."

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein

44. "For God is not against us because of our sin. He is with us; against our sin."

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Other categories: God and Religion

45. "Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God."

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Other categories: God and Religion

46. "A conscience without God is like a court without a judge."

Alphonse de Lamartine

Other categories: God and Religion

47. "Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met."

Fran Lebowitz, "Social Studies"

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

48. "Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on."

Budd Schulberg

49. "To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything."

Jose Rizal

Other categories: God and Religion

50. "Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Other categories: Human -:- Justice

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