Quotes About Conscience

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Could she live with herself, cowering, while the world burned.

All evil actions committed by me since time immemorial, stemming from greed, anger, and ignorance, arising from body, speech, and mind, I deeply repent having committed.

It is going to have to be the have-nots — the blacks, browns, reds, yellows, and whites who do not share in the good life that most Americans lead — who somehow arouse the conscience of the nation and thus create a conscience in the Congress. My role, as I see it, is to help them do so, working outside of Washington, perhaps, as much as inside it.

Let no one ever from henceforth say a word in any way countenancing war. It is dangerous even to speak of how here and there the individual may gain some hardship of soul by it. For war is hell and those who institute it are criminals.

Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us

It's a good thing when you don't dare do something if you don't think it's right. But it's not good when you think something's not right because you don't dare do it.

I came very close to saying no, and I often wonder how things would have turned out if I had. I'm being honest when I say I truly never wanted to become a murderer.

Cursed with conscience and damned with duty, because that's how we always reward the best of us.

that, she thought, was the quiet crime of these times: if you made your conscience elastic enough, you could learn to tolerate anything and still find joy in the blossoming of flowers.

Lie faces God and shrikns from men

Ah! how true it was that conscience was a thousand swords.

Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

She meant that if your conscience holds you back, if it muddles the purity of your desire, if it gives you mixed feelings, don't do it.

Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.