Quotes About Conscience

I would rather be right than President.

Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Sir, I would rather be right than be President.

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something God recognizes I will do - and I have done it - and God forgives me for it.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

O shame! Where is they blush?

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.

'Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these, and evil.

There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years digging. He cannot go forward, and has no way back. Words have failed, tears won't help, and who would he call out to? He can't even remember his own name. Then the man sees that on this god's green earth there is but one true suffering: the torment of guilty conscience.

He had a conscience as elastic as any politician could wish for.

Real responsibility means doing what's right, even when it's hard.

You'd never ask me to do something that wasn't right. There's a difference between right and regs sometimes. That's why regs can change, but right doesn't.

Do you wonder, ever, what makes a person capable of taking a life when there's no threat to his own or another? What makes them end life, and so often, so very often, with real cruelty, even with pleasure.

Es posible, pero hay consideraciones superiores a obedecer la ley, imperativos superiores. –Ah, ¿sí? No lo sabía. Gracias, pero a mí me basta con la ley.

Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience? V: I beg your pardon?

I thought symphaths didn't have a conscience. I'm half my mother's boy, too. So I have a little. Aren't you lucky. The Reverend's chin dipped down, and his eyes flashed pure, purple evil for a split second. Then he smiled. No… all the rest of you are fortunate.

When you were contemplating cheating on your mate, it was not easy on the conscience. And not something you wanted to do in the home you shared with her.