Quotes About Conscience

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

It's when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I'd assassinated, that I unravel inside.

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.

There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.

People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.

It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

It's up to me if I decide to do what I think is right.

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

What is morally wrong can never be politically right.—ABRAHAM LINCOLN

When an individual is cooperative and altruistic, this reduces his advantage in competition to a comparable degree with other members but increases the survival and reproduction rate of the group as a whole. In a nutshell, individual selection favors what we call sin and group selection favors virtue. The result is the internal conflict of conscience that afflicts all but psychopaths, estimated fortunately to make up only 1 to 4 percent of the population.

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.