Eric Hoffer Quotes

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

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

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

Guilt soon learns to lie.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

Oh but I'd pay anything to keep my conscience clean.I'm keeping my eyes on the the exit sign. Steady now.

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

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

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

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.

Think before you act and act on what you believe.

My conscience is clear.

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.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.