Quotes About Conscience

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.

I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn't ordered to do.

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!