Quotes About Conscience

The source of morality must be moral.

I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

I don't go around saturated in guilt or anything like that. I do worry about things quite a lot, but I don't feel as though I am a bad person.

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.

I can tell you that good people do bad things.

La ragion di Stato non si è mai curata di gettare una graziosa volta fra causa ed effetto. La coscienza del mondo, tanto più pigra a pensare quanto più carica di rimorsi, la stampa dei gruppi momentaneamente al potere e il cervello dei suoi lettori castrato da essa, hanno sempre girato e capito la cosa solo come occorreva a loro

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

Ogni cosa a questo mondo è innanzi tutto una questione morale e solo molto più tardi una questione politica.»

That a man might do something very audacious and desperate for money, power or fame, was to the general apprehension quite possible; but, in face of plainly-written law, in face of constitutional guarantees protecting each state against domestic violence, in face of a nation of forty million of people, that nineteen men could invade a great State to liberate a despised and hated race, was to the average intellect and conscience, too monstrous for belief.

There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these excellent qualities, and her home of its early happiness. Conscience cannot stand much violence.