Quotes About Conscience

The Fuhrer himself was the target of the fourth leaflet: "Every word that comes from Hitler's mouth is a lie. When he says peace, he means war, and when he blasphemously uses the name of the Almighty, he means the power of evil, the fallen angel, Satan. His mouth is the foul-smelling maw of Hell, and his might is at bottom accursed." This leaflet ended with the words "We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will not leave you in peace.

The conservative knows that freedom without any restraints may lead to oppression or anarchy, just as government without any restraints may lead to collectivism. But he believes the best and most effective restraint upon anarchic individualism to be obedience to moral law, the private conscience.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden".

Obeying an unjust law is itself unjust.

Being just may not always be easy but it's always required.

Just because something is the law, doesn't make it right.

?yilik demek kimseye kötülü?ü dokunmamak de?il, kötülük yapacak cevheri içinde ta??mamak demektir.

Fakat içimizde, bizim "ahlak" taraf?m?zla hiçbir ?ekilde münasebete geçmeyerek hadiseleri muhakeme eden, neticeler ç?karan ve tedbirler alan bir "hesabi" taraf?m?z vard? ve lafta de?ilse bile fiilde daima o galip ç?k?yor ve onun dedi?i oluyordu.

bizim en büyük maharetimiz nefsimizden beraat karar? almakt?r. Vicdan azab? dedikleri ?ey, ancak bir hafta sürer. Ondan sonra en a?a??l?k katil bile yapt??? i? için kafi mazeretler tedarik etmi?tir.

Do you know why the white man really hates you? It's because every time he sees your face, he sees a mirror of his crime—and his guilty conscience can't bear to face it!

They asked if I knew what "conscientious objector" meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.

If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it. For let your impulse be in your own power.

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavour to flee from another's, which is not.

ÄŒasto sa dopúÅ¡Å¥a bezprávia aj ten, kto ni? nerobí, nielen ten, kto nie?o robí.

Don't imagine that something is good for you if, in pursuing it, you must break a promise, harm anyone else, lose self-respect, act hypocritically, or hide in shame.

It is no excuse to plead that he knew nothing about the atrocities done in his name: it was his duty to know, and if he did not he would have been the first to confess that he had failed in his duty.

10. Remorse is annoyance at yourself for having passed up something that's to your benefit. But if it's to your benefit it must be good—something a truly good person would be concerned about. But no truly good person would feel remorse at passing up pleasure. So it cannot be to your benefit, or good.

Haga o diga alguien lo que quiera, obligado estoy a ser bueno. Como

Die Aufgabe des Lebens besteht nicht darin, auf der Seite einer Mehrzahl zu stehen, sondern dem inneren Gesetz gemäß zu leben.

If it is not right do not do it, if it is not true do not say it.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

Mea mihi conscientia pluris est quam omnium sermo

My conscience has more weight for me than the opinion of the whole world

a distinction has gradually sprung up between what is expedient and what is right. But the implication that something can be right without being expedient, or expedient without being right, is the most pernicious error that could possibly be introduced into human life.