Quotes About Conscience

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It's a lot worse than 'too bad.' It's against everything decent and natural.

There's something about a pious man such as he. He will cheerfully cut your throat if it suits him, but he will hesitate to endanger the welfare of your immaterial and problematical soul.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!

Never let your sense of morals keep you from doing what is right.

Nunca permitas que el sentido de la moral te impida hacer lo que está bien!

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Don't be so blinded by your morals you fail to do what's right.

Esto sirve para tranquilizarnos la conciencia, hija —explicaba a Blanca—. Pero no ayuda a los pobres. No necesitan caridad, sino justicia.

Because he had hardened his soul and silenced his conscience with the excuse of progress

llevaba ahora a Blanca a ver a los pobres, cargada de regalos y consuelos. —Esto sirve para tranquilizarnos la conciencia, hija —explicaba a Blanca—. Pero no ayuda a los pobres. No necesitan caridad, sino justicia.

Esto sirve para tranquilizarnos la conciencia, hija -explicaba Blanca-. Pero no ayuda a los pobres, No necesitan caridad, sino justicia

Trueba continued polishing his reputation as a rake, sowing the entire region with his bastard offspring, reaping hatred, and storing up sins that barely nicked him because he had hardened his soul and silenced his conscience with the excuse of progress.

Later Tomás de Romeu asked Diego why he had challenged Moncada if he was not prepared to shoot him. Diego replied that he had never intended to carry a death on his conscience; all he had wanted was to humiliate him.

This is to assuage our conscience, darling," she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor.

La conciencia puede ser más fuerte que el entrenamiento y todas las estupendas razones para la guerra.

Lo envolvió en la red invisible de la culpabilidad y de las deudas de gratitud impagas.

We've got to understand that the ages of zero to three are the most formative years of a person's life, the time they learn the concept of reward and punishment and develop a conscience, and that 50 percent of all learned human response is learned in the first year of life.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

He will hew the line of right, let the chips fall where they may.

Doing what is right isn't the problem; it's knowing what is right.

Do well and right, and let the world sink.

I think one reason we admire cats, those of us who do, is their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing - or pretend they do. Rarely do you see a cat discomfited. They have no conscience, and they never regret. Maybe we secretly envy them.

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.