Quotes About Conscience

A good conscience makes a sound sleeper

You and I have a principle in common. We do not approve of murder.

I wanted to kill... yes, I wanted to kill. But- incongruous as it may seem to some- I was retrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

Remorse," she said, with great gusto. "Remorse?

Look here, Iris, you're in a tight place. But apart from anything else, there's such a thing as TRUTH. You can't play safe and take care of your own skin when it's a question of justice.

have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience.

I'm afraid it hasn't occurred to me to have scruples" said Katherine

Sometimes one has to go against what is proper in order to do what is right

Love is necessary to satisfy the mind, ethics to satisfy the conscience, and spiritual seeking for peace of soul. Without food and clothes, the body becomes thin and weak. Without eroticism, the mind becomes restless and unsatisfied. Without virtue (ethics), the conscience goes astray. Without spirituality, the soul is degraded.

The word "avant-garde," for example, despite its note of impartiality, generally serves to dismiss-as though by a shrug of the shoulders-any work that risks giving a bad conscience to the literature of mass consumption.

When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven't any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn't face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?

she did everything as if God were watching her: never threw bread on the fire (which was feeding the devil)

What you encountered was an abomination, a military intelligence. It was designed to be insidious and spiteful and inimical to life, and it wasn't smart enough to have a conscience.

Abortion, to me, is an issue of personal responsibility.

Personal responsibility matters.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.

You're no longer the engineer or the physicist or the writer - you're the whistleblower.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.