Quotes About Conscience

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

Our only valid criteria for judgment are the virtues in the soul who is serving God. Is she humble, detached from personal desires, and is her conscience pure? If so, she is holy.

What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.

Guilt drives you away from God, not toward Him.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same...

Commit a sin twice, and it will not seem to thee a sin.

He who can feel ashamed will not readily do wrong.

There is a great difference between one who can feel ashamed before his own soul and one who is only ashamed before his fellow men.

But my dreams, they aren't as empty, as my conscience seems to be

Moins la t théorie cherche à passer pour définitive, englobante, moins aussi elle s'objectivisise (vergegenständlichen) face à celui qui pense. La disparition de la contrainte du système permet au pensant de se fier avec moins de prévention à sa propre conscience et expérience que ne le tolérait la conception pathétique d'une subjectivité qui doit payer son triomphe abstrait du renoncement à son contenu spécifique.

Most men and women must suppress the good within them to be evil; just as, to be good, they must suppress the evil. There is no final victory of one or the other. Indeed

Remorse is the pain of sin.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not Guilty.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

In a republic, to be successful we must learn to combine intensity of conviction with a broad tolerance of difference of conviction. Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.