Julia Ward Howe Quotes

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.

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

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

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

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.

Conscience, the organ of feeling which dominates us and of the opinions which rule us, is presumptuous in the strong, timid in the weak and unfortunate, uneasy in the undecided.

Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?

I've sort of prided myself on playing characters with conscience. The first way I go about creating a character is looking at that area of conscience. What have they done, and what has it cost.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?

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

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.