Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

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

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

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

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

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

Fear is the mother of morality.

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 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.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Conscience is known to be adequate in individuals; in large numbers little is to be expected of it.

Some must speak and some must be still so that we can listen to the voices of the just and the silence of the sinners.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

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.

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

As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.