Quotes About Conscience

Love also means the freedom to follow your own conscience. If you can't be true to yourself, you don't have much left to give anyone else.

Which was worse, to intrude or to pretend not to have seen, because you had no idea what to do?

The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.

I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.

My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death

And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life.

Your evil is that you cannot be evil. And I shall suffer for it no longer!

And she and I, we will take that guilt to our graves of whatever we did and didn't do, or had to do, or failed to do

I'm a little sadder for all of it, and a little meaner and a little more conscientious as well.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

I am not time's fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape, nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong. I know what I do, and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer. Do with it what you will.

Evil is a point of view,' he whispered now. 'We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms.

are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms.

I think you were made for this; for reassuring, and given to us, if I may speculate, to force us to see our catastrophes in the new light of modern conscience.

If you live by your conscience you do what you want.

He didn't have much of a conscience left, but what remained seemed to belong to Bryony.

Once, a great handful of a girl out west told him - I never did love you. […]How mean of her to salve her spit curled conscience by trying to take away their past! In the kitchen he had started to use those very words on Lou - they sprang readily to mind, as wounding words do - but he stopped himself.

Do what you think is right and apologize later.

Contenerse es casi como robar.» Neil Young

Who would fardels bear, To groan and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus, conscience does make cowards of us all;

I'd not want to answer for the lives of other men; not at seventeen, by God's Grace.

What's right isn't always popular, and whats popular isn't always right.

Discussion is an 'art form' in India, an egocentric ritual of simulated conviction or, at best, a second-hand expression of conscience. Its vitality is attenuated by its own irrelevance.

The ancient lizard mind lies below the mammalian mind, which lies below a primate mind, which is modified by a mind adapted to language, and since these layers have developed in response to differing evolutionary pressures, they often do not function efficiently together. Human civility tries to control ape dominance, human rationality tries to control mammalian sexuality, human social conscience tries to ameliorate reptilian greed, never with total success.