Quotes About Conscience

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

When you see stuff that's wrong... it's just wrong, man. You gotta point that out.

When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?

No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.

A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.