Quotes About Conscience

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines that inviolability is a challenge to the rights of every Catholic to freedom of religion and conscience.

The Obama administration would say that if you are a Catholic institution, you can only limit your conscience waivers or exclusions to people of the Catholic Church. That would mean that Catholic institutions couldn't treat people of other religions, and that makes no sense.

If you look into the religions, they have this deep idea of human dignity and the source of dignity being conscience.

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.

I am very much opposed to forcing anyone to violate their conscience or their religious beliefs, and of course, I'm very much opposed to discrimination.

That sacred space of conscience where you can exercise your rights in terms of religious freedom and deeply-held, reasonable beliefs is the core of human dignity. In fact, that's the basis for civilization itself. And when you lose that fundamental principle... you have no basis on which to build.

I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.

At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'

I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.