Quotes About Conscience

In 1938, after Austria, our universe had become accustomed to inhumanity, to lawlessness, and brutality as never in centuries before. In a former day the occurrences in unhappy Vienna alone would have been sufficient to cause international proscription, but in 1938 the world conscience was silent or merely muttered surlily before it forgot and forgave.

Pues quien comete el mal es más desdichado en su alma que aquel que lo soporta. Lo compadezco, pero no lo odio.

on peut tout fuir, sauf sa conscience.

it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed.

Nici o vin? nu este uitat?, cât timp conÅŸtiinÅ£a ÅŸtie de ea"(Suflete zbuciumate)

Es cien veces mejor sufrir por una convicción que matar por ella.

Perhaps I am taking a certain risk in placing more faith in you than in my professional conscience — ah well, I'll take the responsibility for that. After all, we both mean equally well by this poor sick girl.

El que quiere y cree que puede evitar hacer el mal con sabiduría cae en la tentación y en la culpa

I have often asked myself, I have wondered to the point of madness, why a moment's foolish action on a single occasion should matter. But we cannot shake doff what we so vaguely call conscience

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

Do what is right, and you'll have no lasting regrets. Do what is right, and put yourself on the side of truth, goodness, and the best of life.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.

Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

The aim is freedom conscience and truth

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.

As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.