Quotes About Conscience

I don't think rappers have a responsibility, but for me, I gotta say something. I can't just look at injustice and keep quiet.

I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.

It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality, and conscience.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.

Killing is always wrong, even governments are not exceptions.

I have never taken a job or done a job where I felt I needed to leave my conscience at the door. One of the the great things about not being in politics as a career is that I can do this job without thinking about my career. I can think about what we're trying to do, what we're trying to accomplish and what we're trying to leave.

I have never taken a job or done a job where I felt I needed to leave my conscience at the door. One of the great things about not being in politics as a career is that I can do this job without thinking about my career. I can think about what we're trying to do, what we're trying to accomplish and what we're trying to leave.

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

If we say yes to something we believe is wrong now, what guarantee is there that the wrong will not be further exacerbated down the line?

I carry lots of guilt.

I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

I'd feel guilty just doing gags.

One is often guilty by being too just.

I have never done anything which I feel guilty about or wish I had not done it.

I always feel guilty later if I behave rudely with anyone.

We all knew that asking another guitar player to step into Duane Allman's shoes would not really be fair to anybody who had a conscience.

I never had the guts to go to Calais. I didn't see for myself the conditions people were living in, or hear their stories firsthand. That doesn't sit well with my conscience.

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Better to be good without reason than to be evil for a hundred good reasons.

Quién ha vivido un solo día en completa felicidad, sin verse sacudido por la conciencia, la ira, el deseo, la envidia, el orgullo, la pasión, el daño o por alguna especie de temor?

Here may men see how Sin will reap his reward. Beware, for no man knows whom God will smite, nor when, nor in which manner. The worm of conscience will burrow deep within and terrify the wicked soul, though his evil be so secret that no man knows thereof but God and he. For, be he ignorant or learned, he knows not when Death will overtake him. Therefore, I advise you this counsel to take: forsake Sin, or Sin will leave you forsaken.

Das Gewissen ist ein Spiegel, vor dem ein Affe sich quält; jeder putzt sich, wie er kann, und geht auf seine eigne Art auf seinen Spaß dabei aus.