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1. "Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience."
Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"
Other categories: Good and Evil
2. "Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence."
Dorothy Dix
Other categories: Various
3. "The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness."
St. Thomas Aquinas, "Summa Theologiae"
4. "Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind."
Ogden Nash, "I’m a Stranger Here Myself"
5. "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"
6. "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
7. "One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence."
Ogden Nash, "A Clean Conscience Never Relaxes"
Other categories: Memory
8. "A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience."
Doug Larson
Other categories: Memory
9. "There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
George Bernard Shaw
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
10. "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"
11. "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
12. "Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged."
St. Jerome, "Epistulae"
Other categories: Work and Laziness -:- Good and Evil
13. "The New England conscience ... does not stop you from doing what you shouldn’t—it just stops you from enjoying it."
Cleveland Amory
14. "Courage without conscience is a wild beast."
Robert G. Ingersoll
Other categories: Bravery and Fear
15. "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
Mae West
16. "Building a conscience is what discipline is all about."
James L. Hymes, Jr., "Childhood"
Other categories: Education
17. "The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling."
Paula Poundstone
18. "Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others."
Sir Henry Taylor, "The Statesman"
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
19. "Saintliness is also a temptation."
Jean Anouilh, "Becket"
20. "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
21. "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
22. "Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt."
George Sewell
Other categories: Bravery and Fear
23. "Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him."
Bible
Other categories: Envy
24. "Our senses are the landing ports of our spiritual enemies."
George Whitefield
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
25. "Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil."
Ralph Venning
Other categories: Good and Evil
26. "All sins cast long shadows."
Irish proverb
27. "When a politician wrestles with his conscience, he usually wins."
Joseph Sobran
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
28. "Conscience is a man's compass."
Vincent Van Gogh
29. "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
30. "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
31. "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
32. "A conscience without God is like a court without a judge."
Alphonse de Lamartine
Other categories: God and Religion
33. "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
34. "Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on."
Budd Schulberg
35. "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
36. "Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Other categories: Human -:- Justice
37. "A fundamentalist is someone who hates sin more than he loves virtue."
John Schaar
Other categories: Various
38. "The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."
gen. Omar Bradley
Other categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Peace and War
39. "Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Other categories: Truth and Falsity
40. "I have no conscience, Adolf Hitler is my conscience. "
Hermann Göring
41. "Happiness consists of three things: someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience."
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Other categories: Happiness -:- Work and Laziness
42. "If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him."
Jesus Christ, Luke 17:3
Other categories: Forgiveness
43. "God loves you right where you are but he doesn't want to leave you there."
Max Lucado
Other categories: God and Religion
44. "There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience."
French proverb
45. "Anger is one of the sinners of the soul."
Thomas Fuller
Other categories: Anger
46. "In the courtroom of the conscience, a case is always in progress."
Dutch proverb
47. "Conscience is God's presence in man."
Emanuel Swedenborg
Other categories: God and Religion
48. "Conscience is the sentinel of virtue."
Johann Kaspar Lavater
49. "The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: thats the essence of inhumanity."
George Bernard Shaw, "The Devil's Disciple"
Other categories: Nature and Animals
50. "Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
Bertrand Russell
Other categories: Various
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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