Quotes About Conscience

I have a clean conscience and ideals that I am willing to defend.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

When I'm playing a bad guy, a lot of it is imagined: things I thought I wanted to do, but I never would do them.

The guilt of newborns is immense.

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

The law is immoral.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

Ethics are more important than laws.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

Advertisers rip out one another's conscience to control the spending impulses of males ages 18 to 34, who now have the cyber world at their fingertips. They want more.

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

Ihn dazu anzustacheln. mich zu lieben, erschien mir fast als ein Verbrechen. Wie sollte ich von ihm eine Liebe verlangen, die ihn krank machte vor lauter schlechtem Gewissen, während sie mir einen zusätzlichen Grund zu leben lieferte?

Fanaticism never sleeps: it is never glutted: it is never stopped by philanthropy; for it makes a merit of trampling on philanthropy: it is never stopped by conscience; for it has pressed conscience into its service.

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

We are aware of conscience in the same way that a horse has a sense of its rider, or a helmsman on a ship takes his bearings from the stars. Alas! The horse has many different riders, and many different helmsmen look toward many stars. The question is who guides the rider and in which direction does a captain steer his ship.

Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.

He who does not know the truth is Ignorant, he who knows and not speaks up is Criminal. Bertold Brecht

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Food comes first and then morality Bertolt brecht

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

My heart revolts against the spectre of Almighty indifferent to the pain of sentient being. My conscience rebels against the injustice, the cruelty, the inequality that surrounds me on every side.

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.