Quotes About Conscience

Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.

For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Abortion is wrong. I think everyone knows that, which is why abortion activists are so angry all the time. It's a bit like when you catch someone out in a lie, and they get really mad at you really quickly, and you can't work out why until later. It's guilt.

Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.

When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.

I think my morals are perfectly... tight!

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps.

The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't; it just keeps you from enjoying it.

The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing anything. It just keeps you from enjoying it.

Freedom of thought and the right to private judgement, in matters of conscience, driven from every corner of the earth, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum. Let us cherish the noble guests, and shelter them under the wings of universal toleration.

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms...

Honesty consists not in never stealing but in knowing where to stop in stealing, and how to make good use of what one does steal.

Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast , Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.