Quotes About Conscience

Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.

In terms of morals there is no such thing as 'state.' Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.

You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don't believe that it's when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he's able to do them, and that he does them well.

You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.

Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man.

Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.

There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it's you who must keep it satisfied.

Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.