All 50 Uses of
conscience
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- It was said that so many people had for years past come to confess their sins to Father Zossima and to entreat him for words of advice and healing, that he had acquired the keenest intuition and could tell from an unknown face what a new-comer wanted, and what was the suffering on his conscience.†
Chpt 1conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
- This is so even now, of course, strictly speaking, but it is not clearly enunciated, and very, very often the criminal of to-day compromises with his conscience: 'I steal,' he says, 'but I don't go against the Church.†
Chpt 2
- If it were not for the Church of Christ there would be nothing to restrain the criminal from evil-doing, no real chastisement for it afterwards; none, that is, but the mechanical punishment spoken of just now, which in the majority of cases only embitters the heart; and not the real punishment, the only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, which lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.†
Chpt 2
- If anything does preserve society, even in our time, and does regenerate and transform the criminal, it is only the law of Christ speaking in his conscience.†
Chpt 2
- A brazen face, and the conscience of a Karamazov!†
Chpt 2
- But Father Paissy, frowning again, begged all of them, at least for a time, not to speak of the matter "till it be more fully confirmed, seeing there is so much credulity among those of this world, and indeed this might well have chanced naturally," he added, prudently, as it were to satisfy his conscience, though scarcely believing his own disavowal, a fact his listeners very clearly perceived.†
Chpt 4
- You are my conscience now.... Listen, Alexey Fyodorovitch, why have you been so sad lately—both yesterday and to-day?†
Chpt 5
- The Russian people have long called a barrister 'a conscience for hire.'†
Chpt 5
- But only one who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom.†
Chpt 5
- But if some one else gains possession of his conscience—oh!†
Chpt 5
- then he will cast away Thy bread and follow after him who has ensnared his conscience.†
Chpt 5
- Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.†
Chpt 5
- And behold, instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest for ever, Thou didst choose all that is exceptional, vague and enigmatic; Thou didst choose what was utterly beyond the strength of men, acting as though Thou didst not love them at all—Thou who didst come to give Thy life for them!†
Chpt 5
- There are three powers, three powers alone, able to conquer and to hold captive for ever the conscience of these impotent rebels for their happiness—those forces are miracle, mystery and authority.†
Chpt 5
- And if it is a mystery, we too have a right to preach a mystery, and to teach them that it's not the free judgment of their hearts, not love that matters, but a mystery which they must follow blindly, even against their conscience.†
Chpt 5
- Hadst Thou accepted that last counsel of the mighty spirit, Thou wouldst have accomplished all that man seeks on earth—that is, some one to worship, some one to keep his conscience, and some means of uniting all in one unanimous and harmonious ant-heap, for the craving for universal unity is the third and last anguish of men.†
Chpt 5
- For who can rule men if not he who holds their conscience and their bread in his hands?†
Chpt 5
- The most painful secrets of their conscience, all, all they will bring to us, and we shall have an answer for all.†
Chpt 5
- My mysterious visitor, now my friend, told me that at first he was not in the least troubled by pangs of conscience.†
Chpt 6
- The thought that his victim might have become the wife of another man was insupportable to him, and so, for a long time, he was convinced in his conscience that he could not have acted otherwise.†
Chpt 6
- He did this on purpose to set his conscience at rest about the theft, and it's a remarkable fact that for a long time he really was at peace—he told me this himself.†
Chpt 6
- He is a chicken to you, Rakitin ...because you've no conscience, that's what it is!†
Chpt 7
- But at other times I've looked upon you, Alyosha, as my conscience.†
Chpt 7
- All this may have arisen indirectly and unconsciously from the secret stings of his conscience for the money of Katerina Ivanovna that he had dishonestly appropriated.†
Chpt 8
- It is impossible to picture to oneself the shame and moral degradation to which the jealous man can descend without a qualm of conscience.†
Chpt 8
- It is remarkable, too, that those very men of noble hearts, standing hidden in some cupboard, listening and spying, never feel the stings of conscience at that moment, anyway, though they understand clearly enough with their "noble hearts" the shameful depths to which they have voluntarily sunk.†
Chpt 8
- But, as soon as Grushenka had gone, Mitya began to suspect her of all the low cunning of faithlessness, and he felt no sting of conscience at it.†
Chpt 8
- So he had determined, if he did not get hold of the three thousand that would pay his debt to Katerina Ivanovna, and so remove from his breast, from that spot on his breast, the shame he carried upon it, that weighed on his conscience.†
Chpt 8
- Perhaps his conscience was uneasy at the thought of sleeping while the house was unguarded "in such perilous times."†
Chpt 8
- "Why, Fenya threw herself at your feet just now, and begged you not to harm her mistress, and some one else, too ...so you see, sir— It's I am taking you there ...forgive me, sir, it's my conscience ...maybe it's stupid of me to speak of it—" Mitya suddenly seized him by the shoulders from behind.†
Chpt 8
- And so we will not dwell on how Nikolay Parfenovitch impressed on every witness called that he must give his evidence in accordance with truth and conscience, and that he would afterwards have to repeat his evidence on oath, how every witness was called upon to sign the protocol of his evidence, and so on.†
Chpt 9
- He'll say anything as a joke or from obstinacy, but he'll never deceive you against his conscience.†
Chpt 9
- Tell me, on your conscience, tell me the worst.†
Chpt 11
- His abuse of her at Mokroe weighed on the old man's conscience, and when he learned the whole story, he completely changed his view of her.†
Chpt 11
- You see, it's a question of conscience, question of the higher conscience—the secret is so important that I can't settle it myself, and I've put it off till I could speak to you.†
Chpt 11
- You see, it's a question of conscience, question of the higher conscience—the secret is so important that I can't settle it myself, and I've put it off till I could speak to you.†
Chpt 11
- But, on the other hand, my conscience?†
Chpt 11
- He is afraid, no doubt, that you'll stand before me as my conscience.†
Chpt 11
- He rejected everything, 'laws, conscience, faith,' and, above all, the future life.†
Chpt 11
- In old days we had all sorts, but now they have taken chiefly to moral punishments—'the stings of conscience' and all that nonsense.†
Chpt 11
- Only those who have got no conscience, for how can they be tortured by conscience when they have none?†
Chpt 11 *
- Only those who have got no conscience, for how can they be tortured by conscience when they have none?†
Chpt 11
- But decent people who have conscience and a sense of honor suffer for it.†
Chpt 11
- 'Conscience!†
Chpt 11
- What is conscience?†
Chpt 11
- An earnest conscience!†
Chpt 11
- The President began by informing him that he was a witness not on oath, that he might answer or refuse to answer, but that, of course, he must bear witness according to his conscience, and so on, and so on.†
Chpt 12
- I was lying against my honor and my conscience, but I wanted to save him, for he has hated and despised me so!†
Chpt 12
- Oh, he has a tender, over-tender conscience!†
Chpt 12
- He tormented himself with his conscience!†
Chpt 12
Definition:
feeling or judgment of morally right or wrong personal behavior