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Category: Sin and Conscience

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1. "Temptation is the woman's weapon and the man's excuse."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

2. "Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

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

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

Quotations about: Various

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

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

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

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- Various

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

Anon.

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

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

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Marriage

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

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

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

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

Anon.

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

Anon.

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

Edward Dahlberg, "Alms for Oblivion"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

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

Josh Billings

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Intellect, Judgement

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

Benjamin Franklin

14. "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

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

15. "Conviction is the conscience of intellect."

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

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

Emma Goldman

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

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

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

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

Dorothy Dix

Quotations about: Various

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

St. Thomas Aquinas, "Summa Theologiae"

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

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

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21. "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"

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

Marilyn Monroe

Quotations about: Success and Fame

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

Ogden Nash, "A Clean Conscience Never Relaxes"

Quotations about: Memory

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

Doug Larson

Quotations about: Memory

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

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

26. "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"

27. "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"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

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

St. Jerome, "Epistulae"

Quotations about: Work and Laziness -:- Good and Evil

29. "The New England conscience ... does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it."

Cleveland Amory

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

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

Mae West

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

James L. Hymes, Jr., "Childhood"

Quotations about: Education

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

Paula Poundstone

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

Sir Henry Taylor, "The Statesman"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

35. "Saintliness is also a temptation."

Jean Anouilh, "Becket"

36. "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"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol -:- Woman and Man

37. "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"

Quotations about: Woman and Man -:- Wit and Humor

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

George Sewell

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

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

Bible

Quotations about: Envy

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

George Whitefield

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

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

Ralph Venning

Quotations about: Good and Evil

42. "All sins cast long shadows."

Irish proverb

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

Joseph Sobran

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

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

Vincent Van Gogh

45. "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

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

Anon.

Quotations about: God and Religion

47. "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

Quotations about: God and Religion

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

Alphonse de Lamartine

Quotations about: God and Religion

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

Fran Lebowitz, "Social Studies"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

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

Budd Schulberg

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