Quotes About Conscience

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

I have tried so hard to do right.

I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.

I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked back on and said, 'That's the company that honoured me, even though I don't have an education'. I wanted to build a company that had a conscience.

One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

I've always told Will, you can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be OK.

We are now so far advanced in our denial of evil that we want to rationalise it away.

God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feelings, but only if it relies on the Word of God.

I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.

Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.

Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God.

EVERYTHING is dependent on whether or not we care... CHOOSE to care, CHOOSE to want, CHOOSE to do the right thing.

Sometimes, life isn't about what you want to do but what you ought to do.