Quotes About Conscience

I'm not satisfied with the term 'evil.' We've inherited this word... and we use it to express our abhorrence when people do awful things, usually acts of cruelty, but I don't think it's anything more than another word for doing something bad.

It comforts the adult conscience to remember that, amid history's grave injustices, there were still great lives.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.'

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

I didn't kill innocent people.

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

They rejected his novel concept of freedom of conscience

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.

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

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.

Ubi boni, malum prosperat (Where good men are silent, evil prospers)

Policy is not that complicated! One only needs a clear conscience and therefore, a bad memory...

Guilt is to the soul as pain is to the body, a warning that harm is being done.

Doubt afflicts the good, not the bad.

In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.

L'établissement de la christologie a demandé quatre siècles. Elle a amené une fermentation inouï dans les esprits, troublés les conscience, ulcérés les moeurs.

Sería más justo decir trágico accidente, como querían unos, o crimen, como querían otros? Que cada cual escoja según su conciencia. Las palabras no van a sacar al muerto de la tumba.

La limitación, tanto de la inteligencia como de la voluntad, hace posible el ejercicio desviado de la libertad, en la elección del mal en cuanto bien aparente;

Y hoy que me es imposible volver a esa esquina del recuerdo a cometer el pecado no cometido, a reparar el mal no hecho, me mata el remordimiento.

ley es para tranquilizarles la conciencia a los del Congreso, que creen que están trabajando;

Nadie tiene la obligación de hacer el bien, todos tenemos la obligación de no hacer el mal.