Quotes About Conscience

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

How strangely distributed are our scruples. When they are evenly spread across our lives, we are judged good people. Mine, unfortunately, tend to bunch up.

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

Why is it that, today, the masses are so utterly unconcerned about spiritual and eternal things, and that they are lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God? Why is it that, even on the battlefields, multitudes were so indifferent to their soul's welfare? Why is it that defiance of heaven is becoming more open, more blatant, more daring? The answer is, Because "There is no fear of God before their eyes" (Rom 3:18).

The prickings of an uneasy conscience are not the same as the conviction of sin which is produced by the Holy Spirit.

Nada hay más despreciable, ni peligroso, que un malvado que cada noche se va a dormir con la conciencia tranquila

As far as cheating goes , you have illustrious predecessors . Theseus escaped from the labyrinth thanks to Ariadne's thread , Jason stole the golden fleece with Medea's help .... The Kaurabas used subterfuge to win at dice in the Mahabharata , and the Achaeans checkmated the Trojans by moving a wooden horse . Your conscience is clear .

nada hay más despreciable, ni peligroso, que un malvado que cada noche se va a dormir con la conciencia tranquila. Muy malo es eso. En especial, cuando viene parejo con la ignorancia, la superstición, la estupidez o el poder; que a menudo se dan juntos.

Sólo hay algo a lo que los hombres con cargos públicos, del rey al ministro, dice, temen más que la educación de sus súbditos: la pluma de los buenos escritores. La conciencia de los poderosos se retuerce cada vez que uno de estos héroes del pueblo, como el propio Bringas sin ir más lejos, denuncia lo que esos infames no se avergüenzan de perpetrar.

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ideas of Self in conflict cannot be slain, by resistance they are a reality- no Death or cunning has overcome them but is there reinforcement of energy. The dead are born again and again lie in the womb of conscience. By allowing maturity is to predicate decay when by non-resistance is retrogression to early simplicity and the passage to the original and unity without idea. From that idea is the formula of non-resistance germinating "Does not matter- please yourself.

A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.

One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.

The guilty catch themselves.

the key imperatives of modernity: freedom of conscience, tolerance of difference, equality of the sexes, and an investment in life before death.

In short, the liberation of the individual conscience from hierarchical and priestly authority opened up space for critical thinking in every field of human activity.

Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.

Bu vicdan azab? denilen ÅŸeyi hiçkimse kendisi hat?rlam?yor. Herkes, baÅŸkalar?n?n çekmeleri gereken vicdan azab?n? biliyor.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. It enslaves him almost before he has tasted freedom. The 'ologies' will tell you how its done Theology calls it building a conscience or developing a spirit of selflessness. Psychology calls it the growth of the superego. Considering how long society has been at it, you'd expect a better job. But the campaigns have been badly planned and the victory has never been secured.