Quotes About Conscience

Apathy is the glove in which evil slips its hand.

He walked out without his money. The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that.

Doing the right thing isn't always the right thing to do!

That's why we have rules to begin with, Richie: because you can't trust your mind to tell you what's right and wrong.

She fits the clinical definition. No conscience, no empathy, pathological liar, manipulative, charming, intuitive, attention-seeking, easily bored, narcissistic, turns very nasty when she's thwarted in any way…

If you don't know this by now, mate, you'd better write it down and learn it by heart: the right thing is not always the same as what's in your pretty little rule book.

Before God and in conscience, Muslims cannot satisfy themselves by repeating what the texts say and then snap their fingers at daily social realities: that would be to speak of an ideal while at the same time blind themselves as to their daily betrayal.

Los hijos de las tinieblas no se sentían acosados por su conciencia y por lo tanto, podían gozar alegremente de la vida. Los hijos de la luz en cambio, tenían la expresión seria y vivían apenados porque en el mundo reinaba el mal.

I repented and atoned as best I knew how; for twenty years I lived as an upright man, I offered prayers and fasted and gave alms to those less fortunate and made a pilgrimage to Mecca, and yet I was still haunted by guilt. Allah is all-merciful, so I knew the failing to be mine.

The conscience within man is always either excusing or accusing.

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

If you're a representative, you listen to your constituents, and then you go vote their conscience. You don't go vote your special interest buddies' interest and then come back and justify it.

I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me for she never speaks well of me herself nor suffers anybody else to rail at me.

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.

Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is. You may think according to your own conscience. God thinks according to His.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.