Quotes About Conscience

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe...to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.

No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.

Conscience is a man's compass.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth