Quotes About Conscience

I am not dead inside. I still care about right and wrong.

My mother taught me right and wrong, and the right is the only way to go.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

Any time I screw up I feel bad about it.

Guilt is never very far from Rick Grimes' shoulder. It comes with the package. He's a man who takes his responsibilities very heavily, not lightly.

I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

I don't usually turn down work, it usually involves a very big debate with agents and family and your conscience and your sense of panic. But it is the only power we have, as actors - to say no.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

It is our responsibilities not ourselves that we should take seriously.

Is this one of those situations that involves "ethics"? 'Cause I'm a cat , you know. I've never been very good at those.

You can do what's right, or you can do what you are told.

Psychopaths have no ethics, no scruples, and no conscience. Something inside is gone. They just aren't capable of those emotions. That's why killing is so easy for a real psychopath. Society has a lot of problems understanding that.

Ramirez: Yes. Serial killers and most killers in general have a dead conscience. Carlo: When you say a dead conscience that means they don't respond— Ramirez: No morals, no scruples, no conscience. They are ... uh ... they sometimes ... some of them don't even care if they live or die themselves and they are just the walking dead.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: "The line between good and evil is in the center of every human heart.

Jedynym koniecznym warunkiem triumfu z?a jest to, ?eby dobrzy ludzie nie robili nic. (Edmund Burke)

Luther, the hero of Worms, the champion of the sacred rights of conscience, was, in words, the most violent, but in practice, the least intolerant, among the Reformers.

Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect: the other extends it to all men on the condition of faith. Both are right in what they assert; both are wrong in what they deny. If one important truth is pressed to the exclusion of another truth of equal importance, it becomes an error, and loses its hold upon the conscience.