conscience Quotes

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!'

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.