Quotes About Conscience

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

— Budd Schulberg

It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.

— Polybius

The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning; it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

— Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo

A guilty conscience needs to confess.  A work of art is a confession.

— Albert Camus

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

— Carolyn Wells

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking.

— H. L. Mencken

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

— Publilius Syrus

Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.

— Lillian Hellman

Conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience.

— Kelly Miller

Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest.

— William Faulkner