Quotes About Conscience

This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know—by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time.

He had live long enough to know there was a little scumbag in everyone, but it didn't help much when you had to take out the trash.

There were other people here with at least some shreds of decency left, but working in a place like this destroyed your moral compass.

He had lived long enough to know there was a little scumbag in everyone, but it didn't help much when you had to take out the trash.

...There is a duty of solidarity among all us impossible, near-invisible people: a duty, out of sheer cussedness, not to disappear completely, simply to ease the conscience of the rest.

I freely will the best choice, thus willing the same will

Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals.

The good Lord wouldn't have put it in your heart if it wasn't right.

But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit.

What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It's having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Had he actually possessed the ability simply to airbrush an entire daughter out of his conscience?

For evil to survive, all that is necessary is for good people to stand by and do nothing.

It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us the good service of telling us the truth about ourselves. When we don't, we can so easily delude ourselves, lose a sense of truth about ourselves, and our conscience loses power and purpose. Mostly, we tell ourselves what we would like to hear. We lose our way.

The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely conforms to the judgments of others. That is not real freedom, and it makes true love impossible, for if we are to love truly and freely, we must be able to give something that is truly our own to another. If our heart does not belong to us, asks Merton, how can we give it to another?

as to describe the impact of Francis on his era this way: " [His life] closed the reign of Byzantine art and of the thought of which it was the image. It is the end of dogmatism and authority. Uncertainty became permissible in some small measure. It marks a date in the history of the human conscience."3

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.

The war between the ideal and the real, between what's right and what's convenient, between the larger good and personal interest is the contest that unfolds in the soul of every American.