Quotes About Conscience

You can be seduced to do this," Zimbardo added. "It's easy for people to delude themselves into thinking that they will be the ones who will do it the right way. Self-delusion is a powerful force for evil.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

They are slaves who dare not beIn the right with two or three.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Doubtless priest as well as Levite salved his conscience with ample excuse for his inhumane conduct; he may have been in a hurry, or was fearful, perhaps, that the robbers would return and make him also a victim of their outrage. Excuses are easy to find; they spring up as readily and plentifully as weeds by the wayside. When the Samaritan came along and saw the wretched state of the wounded man, he had no excuse for he wanted none. - ch. 26 of Jesus the Christ

Lincoln always believed, he later said, that "if slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and he could not remember when he did not "so think, and feel.

A writer is the conscience of the world.

Sitting there I had a vision of the world with nations, systems, economic blocks, hardening and consolidating; a world where it would become increasingly ludicrous even to talk about freedom, or the individual conscience.

Algunos no saben distinguir el bien del mal ni siquiera cuando se les muestra.

Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.

None of that, however, concerned Buccleuch who was little troubled, if ever, with matters of right and wrong.

You promise food and horses and nonresistance and when they invade, you do or don't lick their boots according to the thickness of your walls and the kind of conscience you have.

After all, he thinks conscience is a sort of vermiform appendix. Chop it out and you'll feel all the better.

Remorse is eating his soul like a caterpillar in a cabbage.

They knew, with the painful conviction of experience, what it meant to say, "I see and approve the better, but follow the worse.

The possibility of evil exists from the moment that a creature is made that can love and do good because it chooses and not because it is unable to do anything else. The actuality of evil exists from the moment that that choice is exercised in the wrong direction.

The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.

Yaln?zca önümde durup da beni, kendisini yemeÄŸe davet eden bir hayvan? yemek istemiyorum o kadar, dedi Arthur, bu insafs?zl?k. Yenilmek istemeyen bir hayvan? yemekten iyidir, dedi Zaphod.

It's called 'designer prisoner-of-conscience labour.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

In every profession and walk of life there is someone who is vulnerablle to temptation. (Mr. Barnes)

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Murder—the wish to do murder—is something quite different. It—how shall I say?—it defies God.