Quotes About Conscience

It is not my conscience, Not my mind, that is diseased, but the world I have to live in.

The conscience of a blackened street Impatient to assume the world. I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images, and cling: The notion of some infinitely gentle Infinitely suffering thing.

We must speak out when evil shows itself, whether there is any hope of changing it or not.

Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

That was a monstrous thought - he KNEW it was monstrous. Yet he thought it all the same.

One would love nonetheless to know how to be a man, how to be a woman before God, in the mirror of one's own conscience, in the looks of those who surround us. One would wish to find the strength to beautify one's thoughts and to purify one's heart. It is everyone's hope and expectation to live in serenity and to plod along in transparency: the palms of the hands patiently directed towards heaven, at the heart of all this modernity.

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonour, nor violence indicate possession.

La moral es una autoridad superior al derecho.

Is it how we feel or how we think that is more important in determining whether we are morally good human beings?

as a boy when his mother told him to listen to the voice inside him to help him tell the difference between right and wrong, nothing happened. He concluded that "either I was too wicked to have a conscience or too good to need one".

I know guys aren't supposed to cry, but I cried a bunch that night. And I guess that's when I decided being good at something didn't mean you had to do it. Just 'cause something's easy doesn't make it right.

One begins to go about with the sluggish step of a philosopher or a clochard , as more and more vital gestures become reduced to mere instincts of preservation, to a conscience more alert not to be deceived than to grasp truth.

si hay alguna cosa que defiendo por mí mismo, por la escritura, por la literatura, por todos los escritores y por todos los lectores, es la soberana libertad de un escritor de escribir lo que su conciencia y su dignidad personal lo llevan a escribir.

Como a veces no puede dormir, en vez de contar corderitos contesta mentalmente la correspondencia atrasada, porque su mala conciencia tiene tanto insomnio como él.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.

A fiendish love... an unearthly love... those who feel such a love are numbed to their very souls by this mysterious pleasure while they struggle with endless frustration, censured by the pangs of conscience of their boundless crime

But I did what I thought was right in the moment. In the end, that's all a man has to measure his life, and it's plenty.

Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Peace visits not the guilty mind. (Nemo Malus Felix)

At the time, each time round, I thought I was doing the right thing – no, I was doing the right thing. At every turn, all I wanted was to be a good man, honourable, putting others ahead of myself. And this is where I've brought you all to, by doing the right thing. I guess that's the way it's got to be, with me. Everything I do turns bad on me, and I've never knowingly done anything wrong, in the small part of my life that I can remember.

Two inconsistent duties sever My mind with cruel shock, As when the current of a river Is split upon a rock.