Jeremy Collier Quotes

In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external man." When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body.

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

Look, I do spray flies, but I have a really big conscience.

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.

There’s a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.

I did not clash with the National Party. I clashed with my conscience. And in the end, conscience wins.

Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.

Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.

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?

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

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 reigns but it does not govern.

But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.