Quotes About Conscience

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.

Do what in your heart you know is right. It is easy to get caught up in your ambitions, but no job is worth not being true to yourself.

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

when the ethics of your profession conflict with your ethics as a human being, well, then there's just something wrong with your profession

When you can stand apart from your own mind and examine it—to think about your thoughts, feelings, and moods—you then have the basis for using imagination, conscience, and independent will in entirely new ways. You literally become transcendent. You transcend your background, history, and psychic baggage.

One of the hardest lessons we all have to learn is how few choices life gives to a civilized woman with any conscience at all.

Killing hurts the heart and soils the soul.

Morality has its own civil wars, with its own victims in their own time and place.

You cannot locate the Kurdish problem by searching. To be able to see the real problem eyes are not enough you would need conscience and mind. (On the quote of IA minister Idris Naim Sahin: They talk about Kurdish problem, what problem? I search but I don't see any problem)

The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In the course of his rearing the goal of exclusive pleasure seeking must be modified drastically, the fundamental urges must be subject to the dictates of conscience and society, must be capable of postponement and in some instances of renunciation completely. So

Ja, vem var hon, att hon kunde våga påstå, att allt det här spektaklet med Karl-Artur, det var ingenting? Det var inte samvetskval, det var inte någon straffdom, det var just jämnt ingenting.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

Las cosas desagradables de este mundo no pueden eliminarse con mirar sencillamente hacia otra parte.

I didn't like that person inside me who said and did awful things. But sometimes it felt as if I had no control over her.

As she conceived it, tea had to be as black as tar and as strong as a sinner's conscience. Or the other way around. As black as that conscience and as strong as tar. And sweet.