Quotes About Conscience

M]ake much of the written word, and pray to God to copy his Bible in your conscience, and write a new book of his doctrine in your hearts.

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Then, after I came home from Europe, I found I was under condemnation; and I was condemned at that time because I did not endorse the financial policy of the General Conference.

You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.

I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

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

Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble

I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.

Go beyond what you feel like doing and do what's right. Every time you do what's right when you don't feel like it, you are growing.

Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.

It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.

We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so.

Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest; most people couldn't be honest if they wanted to be rich.

Era demasiado escrupuloso para no esforzarme por ser lo más desgraciado posible.

He] was very ill-used by the Government about a place that was promised him and never given, after his supporting them against his conscience very honourably, and being greatly abused for it, which hurt him greatly, he having the name of a great patriot in the country before.

Guilt is a self-indulgence.

Don't give anyone the proxy for your conscience.

The five dollars I gave her would never reach her. I knew that: because I wanted my class to think me good for giving it. Spiritual Pride the nuns called it, a Sin of Intention, sister to the Sin of Omission, which was the price for what you hadn't done but thought. Sometimes I prayed so hard for God to materialize at the foot of my bed it would start to happen; then I'd beg it to stop, and it would.

I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn't want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the everyday world of morality. Guilt had become more a fear of getting caught than any sense of right or wrong.