Quotes About Conscience

If you cannot hate evil, you cannot love good.

It is often noted, for instance, that Shakespeare's plays are full of ocean metaphors ("take arms against a sea of troubles," "an ocean of salt tears," "wild sea of my conscience") and that every one of his plays has at least one reference to the sea in it somewhere.

Edison was not a wholly attractive human being. He didn't scruple to cheat or lie, and was prepared to steal patents or bribe journalists for favorable coverage. In the words of one of his contemporaries, he had "a vacuum where his conscience ought to be." But he was enterprising and hardworking and a peerless organizer.

Leaders with principles are less likely to get bullied or pushed around because they can draw clear lines in the sand…The softest pillow is a clear conscience. —Narayana Murthy, founder and CEO, Infosys

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

Evil is never done so thoroughly or so well as when it is done with a good conscience.

We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved, you cannot depend on it to be your guide when it's you who must keep it satisfied

What good am I if I know and don't do. If I see and don't say.

Personal honor is imposed from within. The honor code is imposed from without.

Doing what's right isn't always popular and doing what's popular isn't always right.

Man in other people is man's soul. That is what you are, that is what your conscience breathed, relished, was nourished by all your life. Your soul, your immortality, your life in others. And what then? You have been in others and you will remain in others. And what difference does it make to you that later it will be called memory? It will be you, having entered into the composition of the future.

This was the sickness of the age, the revolutionary madness of the epoch. In thought everyone was different from his words and outward show. No one had a clear conscience. Each with good reason could feel himself guilty, a secret criminal, an unexposed deceiver.

On me donne de l'or. Beaucoup d'or. Mais je n'ai pas le droit de le dépenser. Personne ne veut rien me vendre. J'ai une maison et beaucoup d'or, mais je dois digérer la honte de tout le village. Ils me paient pour que j'aie des remords à leur place. De tout ce qu'ils font de mal ou d'impie. De tous leurs vices. De leurs crimes. De la foire aux vieux. Des bêtes torturées. Des apprentis. Et des ordures.

basta fare domande per tenere la coscienza pulita, è un organo ben protetto e di agevole manutenzione.

U ovu vodu bacaju ono što je mrtvo da bih ga ja izvadio. I to zubima. Za to sam pla?en. Daju mi ?amac, a pla?aju mi sramotom i zlatom. Daju mi da jedem. Daju mi zlata. Mnogo zlata. Ali nemam prava da ga trošim. Niko ništa ne?e da mi proda. Imam ku?u i mnogo zlata, ali moram da gutam sramotu celog sela. Pla?aju me da bi me umesto njih grizla savest.

As Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, 'Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Sin was a powerful temptation, indeed

Perhaps his next task should be to concoct an eighth deadly sin. Or he could work toward finding even a dozen. The devil knew he'd worn out the original seven.

I wondered what terrible thing it was that I had done.

I spiral back to me, sitting here, swimming, drowning, sick with longing. I have too much conscience injected in me to break customs without disasterous effects; I can only lean enviously against the boundary and hate, hate, hate the boys who can dispel sexual hunger freely, without misgiving, and be whole, while I drag out from date to date in soggy desire, always unfulfilled. The whole thing sickens me.

But, to salve my conscience, I must feel the pain of work

What is this self inside us, this silent observer, Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us And urge us to futile activity, And in the end, Judge us still more severely, For the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

Your burden is not to clear your conscience But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience.