Quotes About Conscience

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

I don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What's important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life.

Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

I thought how the Church was meant to be a shrine of the decenies, of friendship, integrity, love of the poetry of conduct, of the flickering, guttering candles of conscience.

Vallon was said to have a Puritan conscience but I had never met his conscience.

Laws cannot make men good: that is the work of the Holy Spirit. But laws can prevent men from doing evil.

Evil is not likely to result when people firmly believe that ends do not justify means. If they evaluate their methods by the same lofty standards by which they judge their goals and purposes, evil will be held in check.

Loving what is right is different from hating what is wrong and feeling right about it.

The way he examines his conscience for bad faith is very much of his time, and yet also very modern, almost postmodern.

El ánfora funesta del divino veneno que ha de ser por la vida la tortura interior, la consciencia espantable de nuestro humano cieno y el horror de sentirse pasajero, el horror de ir a tientas, en intermitentes espantos, hacia lo inevitable, desconocido, y la pesadilla brutal de este dormir de llantos ¡de la cual no hay más que Ella que nos despertará!

Je zlem poddat se aktivn? nebo pasivn? zlu jako jeho nástroj, jeho pozorovatel nebo jeho ob??.

with every lie we surrender a little of our peace of mind