Quotes About Conscience

There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.

Wickedness goes to great lengths and depths where it is not checked and restrained by the free and continuous expression of the indignation of good men.

Many men carry their conscience like a drawn sword, cutting this way and that, in the world, but sheathe it, and keep it very soft and quiet, when it is turned within, thinking that a sword should not be allowed to cut its own scabbard.

Spirituality without morality is rootless.

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

Not if he wanted to be able to look at himself in the mirror in the morning without seeing the word asshole written across his forehead.

Ethically challenged magical practitioners," I said.

Do you really think that you're some sort of superior creature? Do you think that your ability to make money, to steal and lie and murder, places you above normal men?

Guilt's a terrible thing.

John Masterman once wrote: "Sometimes in life27 you feel that there is something which you must do, and in which you must trust your own judgment and not that of any other person. Some call it conscience and some plain obstinacy. Well, you can take your choice.

admired goodness, but was not outraged by wickedness

From time to time there have to be individuals who deliberately take on the burden of guilt because they see the situation clearer than those who have the power.

Lying is wrong, son, but if it serves a greater good, it's OK.

Ashenden admired goodness, but was not outraged by wickedness," wrote Maugham.

We are victims of censorship within when we do not let ourselves think the thoughts which our flesh recoils from, or let conscience speak that which the heart feels to be unacceptable, or when we give ourselves excellent reasons for not participating in this grand drama of our interconnected lives.

Pues se me parece a los pensamientos del hombre perverso. Parece que somos la intuición del malo, cuando penetra en su conciencia para verse en toda su fealdad.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Fools keep their moral code in a compact and indivisible whole so that it may interfere as little as possible with their actions and leave them their freedom in all matters of detail.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Don't throw stones at your neighbors', if your own windows are glass.

Keep Conscience clear, then never fear.