Quotes About Conscience

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.

A body can't run from what they done. They carry it with them inside. It fester and spread like poison if it's buried. It gotta be out in the air where it can heal.

In case you're not bright enough to figure it out, there's a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your phone. I lie, and your conscience stays clear.

Oh, I wish I'd come over here once in a while! That was a crime! That was a crime! Who's going to punish that?

Doing what's right isn't supposed to hurt someone you care about.

We're always at war with good and evil in this world. No one escapes it. It's how we see it, how we recognize it that engages us in battle.

She was ten years old. "That's about the age when people start deforming their consciences in order to accept something that's not just manifestly wrong but manifestly contrary to the religious beliefs that are front and center in their lives." Like Bettina Stangneth or Jan Philipp Reemtsma or David Person, Diane McWhorter cannot say why her conscience resisted attempts to deform it.

How many knots can the psyche tie itself into to defend itself against moral truth?

Shortly after the war's end, posters went up all over the British and American zones [in Berlin]. Under a photograph of corpses at Bergen-Belsen was printed the sentence THIS IS YOUR FAULT.

You can learn that no country, no culture, no religion is immune to falling into the abyss into which we fell. And once it begins, there will always be people who shut down their consciences and side with the strongman. Knowing that, we need to develop a kind of preventative uncertainty.

Is it how it feels to do the right things? Because it sucks!

I think there's a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you've stepped across the line into evil, and it's your life's challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line.

Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent human being, but I'm realistic to know I don't know.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

It's very hard for me to say I'm sorry... but I do.

When I say, 'I'm sorry,' it's because I regret something.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.