Jim Carroll Quotes

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

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

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience.

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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

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

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.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

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.

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.