Budd Schulberg Quotes

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

... sufficient conscience to bother him, but not sufficient to keep him straight.

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

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

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

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

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

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

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

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

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

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

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.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

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

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

I always felt like I was doing the right thing.

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

Guilt is an emotion that is never very far away from Rick Grimes. He's a man that shoulders the responsibility, and it's one of the forces that keeps pushing him on.

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

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