Quotes About Conscience

For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

Do you reject the glamor of Evil, and refuse to be mastered by it?

Questions about Ethics so perplexing that even a Jesuit couldn't respond without committing a venial sin.

There are times, believe you me, when to lie would be a sin and to tell the truth would be a disaster.

Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?

Guilt is about what you do with your dick. Shame is about being a dick.

He had a clean shot, but he also had an informal rule of trying not to kill anyone within an hour of landing in a new country

We are not on our fours, howling in the woods, only because guilt saves us.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

In the end, you should always do the right thing, even if it's hard. I know that might not help you and that the right thing isn't always so easy to figure out.

Savannah sometimes sounded a lot like the little voice that had taken up residence in my head but never bothered paying rent, and right now it whispered that if I felt guilty, maybe I was doing something wrong.

I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what was right or wrong - I knew. I was very mature from early on and I was a very good girl, so she never had any trouble with me.

A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

If I fought like I was looking for a place in history, it would ruin me as a person. I don't think history is worth selling my soul.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.

I don't want to be part of mass murder

Remembering was pointless; but forgetting somehow seemed immoral.

The child is father to the man" is a Romantic riddle that turns worldly hierarchy on its head. It means that the child is in some sense the superior of the man; the child is wiser than the man. Ironically, the eventual broad acceptance of this truth did not so much liberate the Victorian bourgeois as it haunted them and gave them a bad conscience. They sensed that the poets were right.