Quotes About Conscience

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the authors own conscience.

A nice man would feel ashamed even before a dog.

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

We hear our legislators proclaim unceasingly their respect for the individual conscience, though it be a religious conscience, and themselves anticlericals. All the same, all their efforts tend to, dissociate us, and to reduce us to the state of amorphous dust. They can bear no organised society other than what they call a lay society no government other than their government and no social finality other than their temporal aspirations.

In that world I knew that good was killing me, but I thought it was evil.

A person who truly wants to empower the people talks from own heart about the soul and conscience as an awakening to inner power evokes out from there solely, but others who enjoy position and power are most likely to preach others about the peripheral things like the body, mind and spirit only.

A piece of unsolicited humble advice to one who tries to brag the long tenure size with a single organization as his or her loyalty- Request please don't misguide own conscience and observe the point of view of others who can see it only through their eyes.

Guilty conscience goes to Crafty Guru to atone for own sin.

One who does not act in accordance to the deep voice of his inner conscience can't be honest, truthful, trustworthy, loyal and faithful to anyone.

The more a person has own clean and clear conscience, the more readily he can realize & recognize as who is actually wise and who is only pretending to be nice by talking with sweet voice to the people.

The problem in telling the population about something forbidden by conscience is that the same prohibited thing is done often more than ever before by most of them because the world is full of selfish-cum-foolish people

The reputation is not essentially built by earning too much, learning too many things, achieving awards, bagging rewards or catapulting position to the hilt; but by unquestionably staying simple, humble , well grounded and doing nothing that makes own conscience to feel guilt.

You can always have me in your company if you're fully prepared to be true to yourself to grow as a Human. Yeah, that's me. Yours Truly, Your Conscience.

The only shame is the sin.

'Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th' offended gods.

Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Es cierto... Hay un momento en la vida en que tenemos necesidad de ser canallas, de ensuciarnos hasta adentro, de hacer alguna infamia, yo qué sé... de destrozar para siempre la vida de un hombre... y después de hecho eso podremos volver a caminar tranquilos.

We conduct our lives according to our sense of right and wrong. We somehow possess an awareness of what we "ought" to do. When we fail to do what we "ought," a part of our mind we call "conscience" evokes an unpleasant feeling we call "guilt." Is that feeling—present in almost all individuals—an indication of a God-given moral law? Or does it simply reflect what we have been taught by our parents?

A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!

The doctrine of spontaneous naturalism of Renaissance comes from the same source as the theory that the fight against the spirit of authority and hierarchy, the ideal of freedom of thought and freedom of conscience, the emancipation of the individual and the principle of democracy are achievements of fifteenth century. In all this light of the modern age is contrasted with the darkness of the Middle Ages.

I dunno…maybe everyone has to feel guilty. Everyone! Forever!

Maybe everyone has to feel guilty. Everyone! Forever!