Quotes About Conscience

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing.

The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true.

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.

Conscience can be silenced through an incessant disobedience

We often know the truth, but rarely do we follow it.

The body of truth has a much larger data base than the conscience of lies.

The moral high ground was at the top of a slippery slope—

In his combination of earnestness, social conscience, and willingness to scrap, he was a perfect hero for 1943, as America went about the rumbling, laborious business of backing itself into a horrible war.

We can't take pleasure in a work of art, not in good conscience, without accepting the implicit intention of the artist to please us.

Everybody wants the chance to do the right thing, Hirsch. It makes them feel good inside. Even if doing it doesn't exactly fit inside the rules, sometimes you have to rely on the voice inside that tells you what to do.

There is no sense in being haunted by good intentions.

Many people feel most alive, most fulfilled, when they violate the dictates of conscience or even the promptings of their own self interest.

What Jewish tradition refers to as the yetzer ha-ra. [15]

The upper classes of this country raped this country. You fucked people. You built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience. Nobody

THE LESS OF a man I became, and the more of an automaton, so the dreams and half-memories ceased to plague me. It was as if they had deliberately driven me into this mindless rôle; so long as I continued to be a creature without remorse or conscience they would reward me with their absence. If I again showed signs of ordinary Humanity, then they would punish me with their presence.

Elric of Melniboné, madam, called Elric Womanslayer in the West, and this is Moonglum of Elwher; he has no conscience.

I think I have always had a strong sense of justice, of fair play, of what is right and what is wrong.