#conscience

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 Lindsay

#conscience #dreams

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity. ↗

— David Sedaris

#guilt #humor #ponder #humor

We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man. ↗

— Laura Kasischke

#god #heart #imagine #lives #nature

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself. ↗

— Robert Ludlum

#inspirational #truth #inspirational

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#laws #men

I would sooner have the approval of my own conscience and know that I had done my duty than to have the praise of all the world and not have the approval of my own conscience. A man's own conscience, when he is living as he should live, is the finest monitor and the best judge in all the world. Men can accuse you of wrong-doing, and it has no effect at all if you know they lie and you have done that which is right ↗

— Heber J. Grant

#men

C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls; the bridge that links the creature to the creator ↗

— Dinesh D'Souza

#holy-spirit #holy-spirit

I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving. ↗

— David Attenborough

#car #conscience #could #driving #environmentalist

Modesty is the conscience of the body. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#conscience #modesty

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#development #hinduism #independent #reason #scope