#conscience

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#bad #conscience #conviction #deed #deep

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#conscience #correct #done #error #especially

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#been #commitment #conscience #crucial #faith

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#ends #mother-in-law #never #visit #whose

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#inner #inner voice #looking #might #someone

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#ball #clear #clear conscience #conscience #either

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#conscience #judgment #matters #often #said

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#conscience #credibility #evidence #good #only

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#blame #causes #completely #conscience #exposed