Quotes About Conscience

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time?

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.

what could be less satisfying than stealing from someone so endowed that they never even noticed what you'd taken?

The worst thing a suicidal type of man can do is not killing himself, but thinking of it and not doing it. Nothing is more abject than the state of moral disintegration that inspires the idea—the habitual idea—of suicide. Responsibility, conscience, strength of mind, all drift aimlessly about in that dead sea, submerged or brought to the surface again by any chance current.

In short: a good conscience is nothing else but the expression of a desire we all have-to be ourselves and feel comfortable. Those who tell petty, occasional lies suffer far more than great criminals, simply because the latter are thoroughly used to it.

Ethics is a dream.

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel hate or love.

Thus the conscience, though it may lead the unsaved man aright in some areas, cannot save him, since it is defiled, seared, and evil. But in regeneration it is cleansed and used by the Lord to guide the believer in his political, vocational, spiritual, and social relations.

Worry more about your conscience than your reputation. Because your conscience is what you are, your reputation is what others think of you. And what others think of you is their problem.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

Marley's Ghost bothered him exceedingly.

Conscience is a dreadful thing when it accuses man or boy;

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. I

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. I

Conscience is a dreadful thing when it accuses man or boy; but when, in the case of a boy, that secret burden co-operates with another secret burden down the leg of his trousers, it is (as I can testify) a great punishment.

Because," said Scrooge, "a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

No matter our personal dedication to goodness and justice, we are all, in greater or lesser measure, complicit in the injustices of the society which we tolerate. Even if we tolerate it for the best of reasons, it is a constant struggle not to be consumed by the self-contempt that such accommodation threatens to breed in any person of conscience.

To conduct a revolution of love, we must reconnect with the reality of our system and its victims. When we tear away the ideologies, the labels, and the rationalizations, we show ourselves the truth of what we are doing, and conscience awakens. Bearing witness, then, is not a mere tactic; it is indispensable in a revolution of love. If love is the expansion of self to include another, then whatever reveals our connections has the potential to foster love. You cannot love what you do not know.

There is not a thread in it but scorns self-indulgence, weakness and rapacity.