Quotes About Conscience

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

I have a conscience about my work and try to turn out a good piece of craftsmanship.

We will be judged. There will be an accounting; there will be a reckoning sooner or later. It will either come from ourselves and our own conscience, or it will come from our kids when they ask that inconvenient question: 'What were you doing when they turned those kids back from the border?'

I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn't seek the faith. Premise that - and it's the fundamental thing - the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn't believe in God lies in obeying one's conscience.

We have got to stop being a society that turns our heads and looks the other way.

I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a certain attitude, to have a clean conscience, but also to make a living. I was twenty-five. I had been told that one must make a living, and I believed it.

I've twice accidentally stolen something, and both times I went back and paid for them when I realized I had done it.

A man capable of torturing another human being, even if he's scum, feels something break in him, the most important thing that he has, his humanity, his soul if you want.

I feel so guilty when I see orcas performing their stupid tricks in their little swimming pools, and when I see circuses or elephant abuse. I don't want to be in the same industry with these people.

I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.

People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I'll be all right.

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

I never, ever in my heart want to hurt anyone.

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

I shall act as I think my duty requires.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.