Quotes About Conscience

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

But how right is it to kill a man for something that is in his soul?

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.

Sorry, mom. Sorry, God.

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

I have a massive guilt thing about money.

I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren't the same thing.

We all do stuff we think is right. Irrespective rules, drama or money.

Philanthropist: a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

What makes me angry is when people know what is right but have, over the years, attuned themselves to the fact that what they're doing, stealing money from government, is acceptable.

Doing the right thing isn't always easy - in fact, sometimes it's real hard - but just remember that doing the right thing is always right.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

Fear is the mother of morality.

And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.