Quotes About Conscience

What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.

Nienawidzie? si? wolno-doda?a z gorzkim u?miechem-kra??, zabija?... wszystko, wszystko wolno, tylko nie wolno kocha?... Ach, moja mamo, je?eli ja nie mam racji, wi?c dlaczegó? Jezus Chrystus nie mówi? ludziom: b?d?cie rozs?dni, tylko- kochajcie si??

After all, what is sin? It is an action through which a person betrays his dignity.

But what are pity, conscience, or fearTo the brazen pair, comparedWith the living sorceryOf their hot embraces?

When law and morality contradict each other the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his sense of morality or losing his respect of the law. — Frederic Bastiat

What we call conscience, in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the constable.

Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: 'Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee' (Moses 3:17). You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. 'Deny yourselves of all ungodliness' (Moroni 10:32).

All are born with the Light of Christ, a guiding influence which permits each person to recognize right from wrong. What we do with that light and how we respond to those promptings to live righteously is part of the test of mortality.

It is the good who do not sleep.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

Loyalty is too often used as a replacement for morality or ethics

we are all inescapably responsible, not only for our own actions, but for our lack of action, the morality and ethic of our silences and our avoidances, the shared guilt of hypocrisy, voyeurism, and cowardice; what might be called the "spectator-sport social conscience.

To him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin" ((NKJV)).

Religion is not the same as ethics. Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious.

Atticus, you must be wrong. How's that? Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong. . . They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions, said Atticus, but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Why doesn't their flesh creep? How can they devoutly believe everything they hear in church and then say the things they do and listen to the things they hear without throwing up? I thought I was a Christian but I'm not. I'm something else and I don't know what.

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

We wondered, sometimes, when your conscience and his would part company, and over what." Dr. Finch smiled. "Well, we know now. I'm just thankful I was around when the ructions started. Atticus couldn't talk to you the way I'm talking—" "Why not, sir?" "You wouldn't have listened to him. You couldn't have listened. Our gods are remote from us, Jean Louise. They must never descend to human level.

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

La seule chose qui ne doive pas céder à la loi de la majorité est la conscience de l'individu