Quotes About Conscience

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.

I've always believed that the artiste is the one who has his pulse on the society and who, in many ways, represents the conscience of society in terms of engaging standards that we need to live by.

One should not tolerate anything wrong. One should raise his/her voice against the wrongdoings. Don't ignore, just call out.

Freedom comes with responsibility; it comes with privilege and a conscience. It comes with difficult choices. We cannot stand by and allow the Authority to do what it is doing any more. We cannot wait for them to come and take apart what we've made. I will not allow it. You know me. I will not allow it.

Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for the benefit of material security in spite of occasional twinges of conscience and moral protests. The result has been that today much of organized religion is materialistically solvent but spiritually bankrupt.

The idea of making the century's great crime look dull is not banal. Politically, psychologically, the Germans had an idea of genius. The banality was only camouflage. What better way to get the curse out of murder than to make it look ordinary, boring, or trite?… Banality is the adopted disguise of a very powerful will to abolish conscience.

I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary my destiny. Push down the watered mountains that blemish this soiled soul before the valleys of my conscience get the best of me. I'll need a passport just to simply reach the rest of me. A vaccination for a lesser god's bleak history.

I didn't feel evil. I felt nervous, scared, nothing more.

You bite on reflex, and then your conscience bites you.

They were your very good friends. Because they're going to teach you that when you kill someone, there are consequences. It is one thing to kill in a duel, to kill in self-defense, to kill for vengeance. It is another thing entirely to kill simply because you are careless. Those deaths are going to hang over your head until you're so careful you make the saints of Perelandro weep.

You can't, can you?" "Can't what?" "Can't tell me to get lost. Not to my face, not now that I've called you out. You don't really want me to go away." "I do not have to explain myself by your terms!" "Better cinch up that jacket, Sabetha, I think your conscience is showing.

It is one thing to kill in a duel, to kill in self-defense, to kill for vengeance. It is another thing entirely to kill simply because you are careless.

You refused to believe that I preserved your life in Tal Verrar for reasons of conscience. Now I give you the self-interested motive you previously insisted upon, and you refuse to believe it as well. Are you really that arrogant, that logic is as optional as a fashion accessory for you?

All of us--bright atheists and committed religionists--need to wake now and hear the earth call . . . . We need to give and receive as love shows us how, join with each pilgrim who quests for the true, give heed to the voices of the suffering, awaken our consciences with justice as our guide, and work toward a planet transformed by our care.

You lose more of yourself than you redeemDoing the decent thing.

It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong - although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by - come back to us with bitterness.

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.

Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

Is is always time to do the right thing.

We have souls. Sure we do. Otherwise we'd do bad things all the time. You know, like politicians.