H. L. Mencken Quotes

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

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

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

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.

Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.'

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

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

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

You must always do what you feel is right.

I do what I think is right.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

You just have to do what you know is right.

Go by your own conscience.