Quotes About Conscience

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.

Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.

When in doubt, do the right thing

To forgive or forget the crimes of Josef Mengele would require the amputation of our conscience and the dismemberment of our memory.

So, my good father, you go and write the order to burn that book, as your church requires of you. And I will say nothing to the printing house, as my conscience requires of me. Censura praevia or censura repressiva, the effect is the same. Either way, a book is destroyed. Better you do it than have us so intellectually enslaved that we do it for you.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties.

The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it they are wrong.

Morality is not respectability.

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.