Sin and Conscience

"No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."

Ingmar Bergman

Art and Culture

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind."

Ogden Nash "I'm a Stranger Here Myself"

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it."

Ogden Nash "I'm a Stranger Here Myself"

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"You can always have me in your company if you’re fully prepared to be true to yourself to grow as a Human. Yeah, that’s me. Yours Truly, Your Conscience."

Anuj Somany

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 7.14 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God."

Samuel Johnson

Courage and Fear

God and Religion

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse."

Thomas Szasz

Good and Evil

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is defective, she can't return it for a refund."

Carol Evertt

Manners and Ethics

Sin and Conscience

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us."

Henry Fielding

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."

Mahatma Gandhi

Egoism

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address."

Lane Olinghouse

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch."

Robert Orben

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Fall down seven times. Stand up eight."

Japanese Proverbs

Defeates and Mistakes

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Manners and Ethics

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Manners and Ethics

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

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

Sin and Conscience

Various

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Oscar Wilde

Courage and Fear

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Dreams and Desires

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

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Joy and Sadness

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Bachelors have consciences. Married men have wives."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Marriage

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point."

Mason Cooley "City Aphorisms"

Love

Manners and Ethics

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky "Less Than One: Selected Essays"

Sin and Conscience

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Conscience: keeps more people awake than coffee."

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Sin and Conscience

Rating: 8.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

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Sin and Conscience

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Edward Dahlberg "Alms for Oblivion"

Art and Culture

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Josh Billings

Defeates and Mistakes

Intellect, Judgement

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Benjamin Franklin

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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 Proverbs

Defeates and Mistakes

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Conviction is the conscience of intellect."

Chamfort

Intellect, Judgement

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Emma Goldman

Manners and Ethics

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

Good and Evil

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Dorothy Dix

Sin and Conscience

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

St. Thomas Aquinas "Summa Theologiae"

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind."

Ogden Nash "I'm a Stranger Here Myself"

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"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"

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Marilyn Monroe

Sin and Conscience

Success and Fame

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Ogden Nash "A Clean Conscience Never Relaxes"

Memory

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Doug Larson

Memory

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

George Bernard Shaw

Manners and Ethics

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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"

Good and Evil

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

St. Jerome "Epistulae"

Good and Evil

Sin and Conscience

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Cleveland Amory

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Courage without conscience is a wild beast."

Robert G. Ingersoll

Courage and Fear

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Mae West

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

James L. Hymes, Jr. "Childhood"

Education

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Paula Poundstone

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Sir Henry Taylor "The Statesman"

Manners and Ethics

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Saintliness is also a temptation."

Jean Anouilh "Becket"

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)