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

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

There is no art without Eros.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

My greatest fear: repetition.

I live, like every real man, in my work.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

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

I have no words for my reality.

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.

Technology...the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.

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

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

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

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

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

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

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

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.