Quotes About Conscience

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

We want a faithful Catholic businessman not to have to provide a service he finds unethical.

In the Army, I grew up with this view that you're asked to do anything that is illegal or immoral or unethical, then that would be the point at which you have to consider resignation, and you'd be willing to do that.

Conscience is wiser than science.

The greatest Church is within you, and it is made of love, courage and conscience.

Raw power without Godly obedience is a long walk off a short conscience.

A good conscience is an epitome of good life and a true standard of living

Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.

Liberty does not mean doing as you like, it means liking as you ought, and doing that.(From Slave)

How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to 'draw the line, ' and we showed up with an eraser?

Without shame, without conscience.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.

What has to be understood is that most whistle-blowers are not natural activists - this one certainly wasn't. We usually work in anonymous jobs, far from the spotlight. We are not campaigners, or journalists, or wannabe celebrities, craving a platform. Our conscience tells us we have to reveal what we know.

Look, I do spray flies, but I have a really big conscience.

I wouldn't say even that I'm a broadly political person. But on occasion, I have felt that I have no choice but to paint something with a strong moral stance.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

The only guide to man is his conscience.