(532 quotes found)
“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”
Albert Camus
“Conscience is a man's compass”
Vincent van Gogh
“The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most”
Erich Fromm
“If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts us.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.”
Anais Nin
“War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.”
Bert Murray
“The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.”
Omar Bradley
“Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.”
George Washington
