Quotes About Conscience

Conscientious objection is an intrinsic part of being a soldier.

If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or to the ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin - but it is not of Edward of England that I shall ask pardon.

If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon.

I am extremely grateful and humbled by the solidarity and support expressed by countless persons, ex-judges, lawyers, activists and fellow citizens who encouraged me to remain firm and true to my beliefs and conscience.

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

There's some things that no amount of money can get me to do.

I've always done things according to my principles and morals and some things just don't fit in.

If you're heartless, try not to steal someone else's

Love teaches a good person to do bad and a bad person to do good.

In your mind you are cheating somebody, but in reality you are cheating yourself.

For law can be just or unjust. Dr. Huey P. Newton said, "The law must serve men; not men serve the law." John Africa, founder of the MOVE Organization, said, "Just because it's legal doesn't make it right.

During normal, nonemergency times, the capacity of the human mind to rationalize, to compartmentalize, and to be distracted easily is an important coping mechanism. (...) When it comes to rising to the reality of climate breakdown, however, these traits are proving to be our collective undoing. They are reassuring us when we should not be reassured. They are distracting us when we should not be distracted. And they are easing our consciences when our consciences should not be eased.

I imagine it's always easier to do something monstrous if you can convince yourself you aren't going to, up to the last minute, until you do.

He could not help a certain resentment that a conscience seemed to be so very expensive, and yet had no substantial form which one might admire, and display to one's company.

She says it's too easy to call people evil instead of their choices, and that lets people justify making evil choices, because they convince themselves that it's okay because they're

Have I, have you, been too silent? Is there an easy crime of silence?

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel.

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either. Hope is cruel, and has no conscience.

Esta gente que ve pecado en todas partes está enferma del alma y, si me apuras, de los intestinos.

If retirement requires a certain degree of peace of mind and an easy conscience, Victor Florian did not appear to have much of either. He held an unlit cigar in his mouth and had more hair in each eyebrow that most people have on their head.

Meinem Eindruck nach ist der arme Martin nicht einmal in der Lage, seine Schugröße niederzuschreiben, und verharrt meistens in einer Art von Fegefeuer, das er in seinem eigenen Kopf aufgebaut hat, wo ihn Gewissensbisse und Schmerz bei lebendigem Leib aufzehren.

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either. Hope is cruel, and has no conscience. For

Miért nevezik inszomniának, mikor valójában a lelkiismeretrÅ'l beszelnek?

Why call it insomnia, when what they mean is conscience?