Quotes About Conscience

How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?

How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone "reaping" than "killing"—and when one knows that death isn't the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder be murder at all?

There isn't one single thing that will end unwinding. It will take a hodgepodge of random events that come together in just the right way and at just the right time to remind society it's got a conscience. -Sonia

He (Connor) will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do. - Risa

It's always the lesser of two evils.' 'I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.' -Connor

Guilt is easy, innocence is hard.

He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do.

He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do.

I have no desire to impose upon humanity a false utopia. Mine is not a brave new world but a world ruled by wisdom, conscience, and compassion. I concluded that if defiance was a normal expression of human passion and yearning, I would have to make room for its expression.

Honey, I'd never take an unwound part for myself. But when they told me the only way to save my boy's life was to basically gut him and replace all his internal organs with someone else's, I didn't even hesitate. So my conscience will ache for the rest of my life, but that's a small price to pay for having my son still on this earth.

It's always the lesser of two evils. I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.

Those who wish to have the job should not have it… and those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.

Remorse. Regret. Sorrow too great to bear. Because if we didn't feel those things, what monsters would we be?

Either someone with no conscience at all, or someone with a conscience so deep and sturdy that its center could still hold in the face of light extinguished.

But my pain must not prevent me from doing the right thing.

Und wenn ihr Gewissen droht, sie in den Abgrund zu reißen, müsste sie sich dann nicht davon befreien, damit sie überleben kann?

suppose I could have found ways to medicate it away— but I have no desire to impose upon humanity a false utopia. Mine is not a "brave new world" but a world ruled by wisdom, conscience, and compassion. I concluded that if defiance was a normal expression of human passion and yearning, I would have to make room for its expression.

Un hombre espantoso entra y se mira al espejo. «¿Por qué se mira al espejo si no ha de verse en él más que con desagrado?». El hombre espantoso me contesta: «Señor mío, según los principios inmortales del ochenta y nueve, todos los hombres son iguales en derechos; así, pues, tengo derecho a mirarme; con agrado o con desagrado, ello no compete más que a mi conciencia».

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.

Trying to be good made me sick.

Young man, if I could as easily wipe from my conscience the stain of killing you, as I can this spittle from my face, you should not live another minute.

Humans are inhuman, whether it's by direct action or by acceptance of a horrible action as normal.

a man cannot make himself believe a lie just because it profits him. Men

but he was incapable of shame.He had no conscience or soul.No heart, either.That has broken and died years ago.The leftover pieces had petrified in his chest, leaving stone shrapnel in a black, empty place that felt nothing.Just a yawning void of nothing.And he liked it that way...