Carlo Collodi Quotes

Conscience is a thousand swords.

Conscience: something that feels terrible when everything else feels well.

Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Some people say they will follow their conscience..many of us have dead consciences. Your conscience is no longer a safe guide. You've harden it, you've deaden it.

Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Senator H. Alexander Smith of New Jersey spent the day wrestling with his conscience. He won.

... sufficient conscience to bother him, but not sufficient to keep him straight.

Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?

You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!

Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin.

I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.

Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.