Quotes About Conscience

Humans are the only ones who are the custodians of other people's morals.

Basic religion is the reason we have morals.

We've had other things come up in their place, but I don't think' anything beats morals.

My morals are important to me.

I'll never go against my morals.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

American business needs more conscience, not less, whether from religious motivation like Hobby Lobby or from secular intentions.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

It was the beginning of that dark time of blood, and crime, and terror which the years of prohibition brought and which was to leave its hideous mutilation not only upon the soul and conscience of the nation, but upon the lives of millions of people—particularly the young everywhere. At

Le citoyen doit-il un seul instant, dans quelque mesure que ce soit, abandonner sa conscience au législateur ? (LA DÉSOBÉISSANCE CIVILE)

In a way I wanted to stop myself. It was cruel, I knew that, but right and wrong were somewhere else.

It had no memory, therefore no guilt

A moral freeze: I couldn't decide, I couldn't act, I couldn't comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity.

Some things are worse than death,' Wright told Brown. 'If a man lives, he must still live with himself.' "19

To err is human. To kill is evil.

A conscience is the price of morality, and morality is the price of civilization.

The human mind has a way of punishing itself for killing a fellow man. It remembers and relives the incident again and again.

There comes a time when a man must stand up and do what he knows is Wrong.

It was one of those moments when the moral high ground opens and swallows you up.

If you're thinking about doing something you won't be able to confess to your spouse or best friend, then DON'T DO IT! YOU ALREADY KNOW IT'S WRONG!

Little devils wrestled with little angels in the innermost chambers of my conscience. The devils cheated, of course, although where my conscience was concerned they were also more familiar with the terrain.

Morality makes no difference legally.

it was the right thing to do, but she had no right to do it. (Introduction)

I'll explain to her, even though I don't have to. Why I did it. How if I hadn't killed her she would have died and that is something I could not bear to happen to her.