All a man can betray is his conscience

Quote by Joseph Conrad

Topics: Conscience Quotes

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the...

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the...

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification...

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification...

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have...

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have...

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the...

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the...

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the...

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the...

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be...

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be...

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with...

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with...

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of...

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of...

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite...

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite...

All a man can betray is his conscience.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to...

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to...

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but...

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but...

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient,...

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient,...

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love...

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love...

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is...

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is...

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of...

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of...

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those...

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those...

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity....

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity....