Quotes About Conscience

let us note that a so-called "Sociobiologist" - this word is a whole project by itself - pushed the ingeniosity to the point of replacing matter by "genes", whose egoist selfishness, combined with ant and bee instincts, would have managed to constitute not only bodies but also conscience and at the end, human intelligence, miraculously able to dissert on the genes that amusingly created it.

That pressure you feel is called a conscience," Conor said, holding Rollan in a steady gaze. "I wouldn't know about consciences. My mother didn't teach me much before she abandoned me." "My father rented me as a servant to pay his debts," Conor returned. Rollan couldn't believe this was becoming a competition. "Look, my terrible childhood is all I've got! Don't you dare try to top it.

Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.

Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become....

What separates the heroes from the villains? One speech in the night?

Religion worried him. It could ask men to do things they'd otherwise never do.

He felt a swelling of pride. Ridiculous, of course. He had endangered the kindgdom — how would people react if they knew the Blackthorn himself had broken before a crisis of conscience? They'd laugh. In that moment, he didn't care. So long as he could be a hero to this woman

freedom was not lack of responsibilities—it was being able to do what was right, without having to worry if it was also wrong.

Well, I didn't wanna kill someone in cold blood—" "That's good, I suppose." "—but there weren't no fire around to light her with first.

You can be moral without following the law, and you can be immoral while following the law.

I am depending upon you to preserve us in power by means of this art we so freely call an abomination. Our hunger for power outweighs our conscience.

Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality-which answers only to my heart-is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.

La libertad no era la ausencia de responsabilidad: era ser capaz de hacer lo que estaba bien, sin necesidad de preocuparse porque también pudiera estar mal.

Integrity doesn't stop men from killing, Brightness," Sebarial said. "It just makes them use different justifications.

Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.

Debe alguien, un ser invisible, declarar qué es el bien para que sea bueno? Yo creo que mi propia moralidad, que responde solo ante mi corazón, es más segura y veraz que la moralidad de aquellos que hacen el bien solo porque temen el castigo. —Pero

No shortage in terrorists, Grant observed grimly. They came in all dimensions: groups of political fanatics with blind obedience and perverted social conscience; the trained assassin tracking down their victim in a peaceful Austrian village; a boy in a quiet Washington street killing on vicious impulse. All of them, however different they seemed, bent on destruction. All of them, however motivated, with total contempt for human life.

Radicalism is the party of the spirit whose ideas erect signposts to eternity and, in every situation, remind the conscience of the future. It scorns the conditioned and limited, small things and steps, restraint, discretion, and unconsciousness. It is joyful, but only towards what is great; it is reverent, but only towards what is powerful. It is pure and, therefore, self-righteous; principled and, therefore, repressive; fanatical and, therefore, destructive.

Wallander felt on the verge of misconduct.

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. -Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist (1906-1998)

The thought that human beings are considering saving lives by killing millions of their fellow human beings is so preposterous that the words 'saving life' have lost all of their meaning. One of the most tragic facts of our century is that this 'No' to nuclear weapons has been spoken so seldom, so softly, and by so few.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?