Quotes About Conscience

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?'

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.

There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

I don't believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice.

The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

When you are in positions of privileged access... you see things that may be disturbing. Over time, that awareness of wrongdoing sort of builds up.

To Him I look as my judge, to Him as the avenger of my wrongs, firm in my own good conscience and secure in the sincerity of my devotion, rooted in faith and confident that those who in the love of justice suffer injury can never be confounded, nor those who break the horns of the persecutors of the Church be deprived of their everlasting reward.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but these, remaining, as it were, external to the subject's conscience, do not really transform his conduct.

Revolutions are of no us;, it is necessary to work on transforming the brain: on sowing a different knowledge/awareness, on creating a new conscience, that is like a magic box full of brains.

Be true to thine own self

No man is capable of causing great evil without thinking he's doing the right thing.

I am convinced that I never wrong anyone intentionally...

Once a man knows good from evil, nothing on earth can compel him to act against that knowledge.