Quotes About Conscience

when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

when human law comes into conflict with what is moral, human law must be defied.

They failed to grasp the central Socratic paradox: that it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty," Simone Weil wrote.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.1 —Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

I don't want to have to think about what is right; I want to live right. And what that means to me is going to be different to some of my fans, some of their parents, and some other role models.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Intelligence is a moral category.

I've got a moral center.

The problem is we need much more moral content.

I always try to follow my moral compass.

I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

There's no such thing as morality.

To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart.

Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.

The morality we all grew up with and are accustomed to is what feels right.

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

I can't morally go against the truth.