Quotes About Conscience

Humanity one chooses. Men who choose inhumanity are merely upright beasts.

It lays down a   clear distinction between spiritual and civil government, in order to   inform us that outward subjection does not prevent us from having   within us a conscience free in the sight of God.

For it is a   moroseness too imperious, to wish that what we ourselves follow as   right, and consonant with our duty, should be prescribed as a law to   others.         

That there exists in the human minds and indeed by natural instinct, some sense of Deity, we hold to be beyond dispute, since God himself, to prevent any man from pretending ignorance, has endued all men with some idea of his Godhead, the memory of which he constantly renews and occasionally enlarges, that all to a man being aware that there is a God, and that he is their Maker, may be condemned by their own conscience when they neither worship him nor consecrate their lives to his service.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.

Frank tried to look like he was wrestling with his conscience, although he couldn't have found his conscience without a shovel and an exhumation order.

You did it because you wanted to. No one can make you do evil. You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

He has all the weaknesses that come with a conscience, but none of the strengths.

I made you do nothing, Jonathan," replied the Crooked Man. "You did it because you wanted to. No one can make you do evil. You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

If he has a weakness, it's that he's a moral being. Where possible, he'll do the right thing, the just thing, and if he does wrong he'll bear the guilt of it.

You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

the law cannot respect the conscience of flesh-and-blood human beings unless it also recognizes conscience claims brought by the corporations they form.

I have shown you how Machiavelli supplied the immoral theory needful for the consummation of royal absolutism; the absolute oligarchy of Venice required the same assurance against the revolt of conscience. It was provided by a writer as able as Machiavelli, who analyzed the wants and resources of aristocracy, and made known that its best security is poison.

God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God…. I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

You should live by, what you claim to believe in. And if you choose to deviate, you should be ashamed of either defying your own beliefs, or believing those beliefs.

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.

The conscience of a people is their power.

I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it.

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.