Quotes About Conscience

It would bother me if a judge told me how I had to believe.

Every institution of India - politicians, journalists and corporate chieftains - comes within the purview of the judiciary but when it comes to auditing their own conscience, judges want everyone else to stay out.

In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of Justice Department you have by what kind of civil rights division that you have.

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

Guilt is a serious appetite killer.

I have the knack of easing scruples.

At the end of the day, that's all I hope for, is that I can sleep well at night knowing that I did everything that I could.

Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.

I don't think bad people realize they're bad people. I bet they think they're good people who occasionally do bad. Which begs the question . . . how much bad can a good person do before being considered bad?

Evil to him who evil thinks,....

All my sins were trapped between its covers. And the damn thing just wouldn't go away. I'd tried to escape culpability, and my culpability had had the nerve to take on a life of its own and hunt me.

Evil isn't a state of being, Barrons once said to me. It's a choice.

They're going to die on your doorstep because you're too much of a prick to save them." "The world is not my responsibility." "Obviously.

There's rights, and there's right.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

The sin is in our thoughts.

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there are no exemptions for people who, for reasons of conscience, refuse to financially support the bureaucracy that actually does the killing. Apparently, the state takes money more seriously than life.

Before religion got organized, faith in God meant trusting your intuition, your gut instinct, as divine. It meant always letting conscience be your guide. For believers, the whole world was charged with the grandeur of Gods and all of life was sacred. Those were the good old days.

It seems to me them that sees an evil thing unfold and don't do nothin' to prevent it, are just as bad as them that does the evil.

As Elizabeth put it, "I have neglected no duties, have injured no one, have always tried to do unto others as I would wish to be done by; and yet, here in America, I am imprisoned because I could not say I believed what I did not believe.

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

If guilt's a luxury, then I'm a plutocrat.

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.