Quotes About Conscience

When the right person does the wrong thing, it's the right thing.

One can feel obliged to look at phototgraphs that record great cruelties and crimes. One should feel obliged to think about what it means to look at them, about the capacity actually to assimilate what they show. Not all reactions to these pictures are under the supervision of reason and conscience.

A writer who acts as public conscience needs extraordinary nerve and fine instincts, like a boxer. After a time, these instincts inevitably falter. He also needs to be emotionally tough. Camus was not that tough, not tough in the way that Sartre is.

at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, and of the [First] Amendment...the general, if not the universal, sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the State so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience and the freedom of religious worship. Any attempt to level all religions, and to make it a matter of state policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have created universal disapprobation, if not universal indignation.

If there is anything that is likely to put me to sleep," he said, "it would be an English history book. So you can hold hands with a clear conscience." "I'm going with Nurse Burrows." "You can still hold hands." "I've no patience with you," she said patiently and faded backwards into the gloom.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

And yet, even as I made these plans, there was a small dismayed corner of my heart. Like those stupid cartoons when you're a kid: little red devil on one shoulder and the little angel in his nightie on the other. My good angel was hiding his eyes.

I've never had an angel on my right shoulder; I was born with a pointy-tailed devil, who crept back and forth across my neck to get his whispers into both my ears.

Where was I when I lied? I mean the essential me, the self I knew and was proud of, the straight talker, advocate of truth and destroyer of illusions? Nowhere to be found.

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

La vida es un don precioso, muchacho. Es lo único que no debes robar jamás.

I used to have a lot of fights with Martin about his theory about disobeying the law," Marshall said in an interview years later. "I didn't believe in that. I thought you did have a right to disobey the law, and you also had a right to go to jail for it, and he kept talking about Henry David Thoreau, and I told him that Thoreau wrote his book ["Civil Disobedience"] in jail. If you want to write a book, you go to jail and write it.

skepticism has its place. Statisticians are paid to be skeptics; they are the conscience of science.

We are each our own devil, and we make the world our hell. OSCAR WILDE

Integrity is what you do when no one is looking. LIVING YOUR YOGA: To practice yoga, telling the truth is not enough. We need to practice not lying. Today live with integrity by not lying to yourself about one important thing in your life.

A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

Modesty is not a religion in itself but rather a twofold act of the will for God's glorification. Therefore we must work towards and possess a well-formed conscience, practice prudence and try to live a life of holiness, which the Church calls Christians to do anyway.

yo sentía un vacío en el estómago, sentía asco de mí mismo por haber perdido durante la lucha la conciencia de que en el combate, enfrente de mí, había otro hombre.

Mi madre decía que las pesadillas eran un aviso de la conciencia.

el físico templario cuya única receta para curar sus males había sido que siempre actuara de acuerdo con su conciencia.

A veces la conciencia va por un lado y la conveniencia por otro.

Don't tell me your name. It's likely to awaken my conscience, and that's the last thing we want.

Jack stopped cold. Where had THAT come from? From your conscience, a niggling little voice - probably his conscience - told him. Damn. He really needed to get a better night's sleep. His conscience was never this loud.