Quotes About Conscience

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought

Those who have succeeded in procuring this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without uneasiness, — places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory capitulations of conscience, — and that they shall enter the tomb with their digestion accomplished.

vicdan insan?n içindeki tanr?d?r.

Conscience is a strange thing...No matter how great the happiness around me, my soul would have been in darkness. The circumstances of happiness are not enough, there must also be peace of mind.

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown.

the purifying action of Conscience upsets the legal order.

had it been given to our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, than according to what he thinks.

Let us live, by all means. But let us try to ensure that death is a progress. Let us aspire to worlds that are less dark. Let us follow the conscience that leads us there.

Se un'anima è piena d'ombra, il peccato vi si commette; ma il colpevole non è quegli che ha fatto il peccato, bensì colui che ha fatto l'ombra.»

Pois a consciência ainda aperta com mais força! Quem quer viver feliz, senhor, não deve escutar a voz do dever, porque, uma vez ouvido torna-se implacável! Parece que nos quer castigar de a escutarmos; mas não, recompensa-nos, porque nos arremessa a um inferno, onde ao nosso lado sentimos Deus! Apenas rasgamos as entranhas, ficamos em paz connosco mesmos!

You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.

The man's villainy had been absolutely appalling. His shamelessness had no slightest twinge of conscience. He was totally convinced that he was reacting quite naturally. I had never realized that the criminal mind operated that way.

The right thing to do is always the one that only your heart can give the answer.

Indeed, Hilda was always putting her oar in, constituting herself the voice of conscience; she was a task-mistress, leading the chorus, undefined, unrecognised, but clearly felt, of those who thought he ought to try more, do more, be more, than he had it in him to try, or do, or be.

Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.

Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would not suit us; they have given for them their peace of mind, their health, their honour, and their conscience; this is rather too dear, and there is nothing to be made out of such a bargain.

The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice.

You think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?

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

I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness." - Jem Carstairs

You are my conscience. You have ever been, James Carstairs.

Real demons are rare. Which is good. Particularly if you don't have the clearest conscience in the world.

It seems important," she says. "It just doesn't seem wrong.

Let's say you were starving. You were going to die any day of starvation. Would you go into a supermarket and steal a can of tuna?" "I'm a vegan." "Nobody's a vegan when they're starving.