Joseph Conrad Quotes

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

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

You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

I have learned that a clear conscience, or a legal opinion, does not make you ethically bullet proof.

While I was thus carrying out my obligations, I never did anything with which my conscience would have to find fault

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.

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.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

We cannot avert our eyes without staining our souls.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

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

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.