David Mitchell Quotes

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

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.

All politics is an extension of ethics ... We cannot leave out conscience at the caucus room door.

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

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th' offended gods.

If we really want to know who is responsible for the mess we're in, all we have to do is look in the mirror. You and I own this country, and we are responsible for what happens to it.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

I'm trying to think of what I'm ashamed of. But, damn, I don't really have any shame.

Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.

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

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

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.