Quotes About Conscience

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

I never killed a man I didn't have to.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.

Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.