Quotes About Conscience

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands, Say, This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can...

But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.

Of all the weapons we turn upon ourselves, guilt is the sharpest, Silverfox. It can carve one's own past into unrecognizable shapes, false memories leading to beliefs that sow all kinds of obsessions.

We destroy to create. But we deny the value of everything we destroy, which serves to make its destruction easier on our consciences. All that we reshape to suit us is diminished, its original beauty for ever lost. We have no value system that does not beggar the world, that does not slaughter the beasts we share it with—as if we are the gods.

We lie about our past to make peace with the present. If we accepted the truth of our history, we would find no peace – our consciences would not permit it. Nor would our rage.

Rely not upon conscience,' Feren said, hearing the bitterness in her own voice and not caring. 'It ever kneels to necessity.' 'And necessity is often a lie

Should you ever outrun the guilt within your past, Sorceress, you will have outrun your soul. When it finds you again, it will kill you.

Guilt will do that.

Group ideology is privileged far above a member's experience, conscience, and integrity. If a member doubts or has critical thoughts about those beliefs, it is due to their own shortcomings.

The only people who aren't hypocrites are those whose morals are so twisted, whose consciences are so seared, that they don't believe in any ideals higher than those they actually live out.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Una conciencia tranquila es generalmente el signo de una mala memoria

Une conscience tranquille est généralement le signe d'une mauvaise mémoire

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

Aninka would not speak the words. They would, she felt, turn her tongue black: words of hatred and falsehood.

Brinorah felt she could rub her hands together and a scale of evil would fall from her in flakes, a taint she had not accepted intentionally, but which she was aware had besmirched her as much as any other who had stood by and allowed Alomeah her bloody free rein.

For the space of a moon, she fought her conscience, then, beneath the cloak of a moonless night, managed to flee the fortress.

To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.

yet underneath it all it's not in conscience another self hidden not in shame because sarcastically been on rushing from its hiding place and taken under its known this tale this proud, this boastful braggart of circumstance and dream that something calls life

Nothing like an endangered pocketbook to help a businessman find his conscience.

There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.