Quotes About Conscience

A satellite has no conscience.

Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?

One fire was on his spirit, one resolve - To send the keen axe to the root of wrong, Clearing a free way to the feet of God, The eyes of conscience testing every stroke.

It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.

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Quelli con il pelo sullo stomaco che pensano a lungo prima di addormentarsi non riescono mai a essere cattivi.

A conscientious slave is a thousand times greater than a conscienceless free person.

As a criminal law; a thief bears a penalty for its crime; conversely, a literary thief enjoys the profitability of plagiarism-crime as self-exception from its moral-corruption, and humiliation of inner voice and conscience.

Don't try to defeat evil but try not to be evil.

Mostly one becomes the victim of own people, who live and breathe, without conscience and humanity.

Psychologically, crying relieves and softens the burden of grief and pain of sorrow; whereas, spiritually, it cleans the sins and mistakes and purifies the conscience and soul.

Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.

The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?

If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

One curious feature about political reform is that so many people feel it is "disloyal" to attempt to rectify the abuses in one's own party. And yet it is obvious that political morality is dependent upon the awakened conscience and private morality of the voters. Such "disloyalty" is simply an evidence of loyalty to principle.

Si uno está haciendo lo que le dicta su conciencia, ¿por que tienes que agachar la cabeza delante de un tipo que se porta de una manera injusta y canalla?

Someone whose only reason for not acting in an antisocial way was that they were scared of getting in trouble with God . . . where did you even start with such a person?

But it is often easier to compel a hundred people to do what you could never compel one person to do. The lone man must consult his conscience, that stern and unflattering arbiter. A man in a crowd, though, can turn to the others, as the others turn to one another, each justifying the deed by referring to the next man, or to the force of all the men together. This

Sin is more than a stain that can be removed by a trip to the dry cleaner. It is a wound that needs to be treated, healed.

The engineers are taking their stand on grounds of conscience...Conscientious objection to the law is not a criminal act. These people are our people and we should take a principled stand, together.

See El Dorado. Take El Dorado. Find another El Dorado. The envy of others is a self-replenishing feast. A rationalization a day keeps your conscience at bay. Never bang your head against a wall. Bang someone else's. Don't break the law. Break the Law. Losers make hurdles. Winners hurdle them.

A rationalization a day keeps your conscience at bay.

Thirdly, we have to raise human beings with a philosophy of ethics. If it's Judaism, wonderful, because it has a basic ethic. If it's Christianity, it has a basic ethic. But we have to raise people with a conscience.

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.