Quotes About Conscience

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

People are less rational than they are adept at rationalizing--explaining away discrepancies between their private morality and actions contrary to it.

En France, des centaines de milliers de personnes défilent pour défendre l'école privée, qu'ils appellent l'école libre. La captation, l'usurpation de cet adjectif me rend fou. Ma conscience politique s'éveille.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing

Lo sapevi, peccare non significa fare il male: non fare il bene, questo significa peccare.

A first impulse was never a crime.

One is often guilty by being too just.

War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich, and other conservative giants are the voices of the conservative movement's conscience. Every day, millions and millions of Americans - myself included - turn on their radios and televisions to listen to what they have to say, and we are inspired by their words and by their determination.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and the individual, the moral formula is void because inner necessity then makes it psychically and physically impossible to break the outer law. Thus, true morality is attained.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

If you vote for evil, you are evil yourself.

We are leaving the E.U. I accept that. But I made a decision I was never again going to vote against my conscience, and that stands.

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.

I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good, honest vote, and one that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment.

You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies.

I'm very proud of the fact that I voted against the Iraq war. And proud that I voted strongly not for students to be saddled with thousands and thousands of pounds worth of debt.

I'm happy and very proud that I voted against the Iraq war.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

I talk to my god every day and he's completely fine with me beating the hell out of people.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.