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Quotes About Conscience

Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.
~ Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit.
~ Karen Salmansohn
All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.
~ Albert Pierrepoint
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.
~ Tariq Ramadan
All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.
~ Plautus
Only good people feel guilt.
~ Laura Schlessinger
We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that.
~ George W. Bush
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
~ Mary McCarthy
There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
Just stay true to myself. That's not even my goal. That's what you always have to do, 'cause at the end of the day when the cameras are off and you put your phone down, you got to live with yourself, be comfortable and sleep at night with the decisions you've made so I'm just always myself unapologetically.
~ Cordae
I never regret or sit back and think that I shouldn't have said something. There are a lot of people who tell me that you shouldn't say this or that or should keep quiet, and I really think that I can either be true to my conscience or can live a fake life by staying quiet.
~ Taapsee Pannu
I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
You want to know about the place called Hell?" he asked the curious animal. "There is no Hell," he said. "Hell is in here." He touched the raw, pink skin of his chest with the tips of his fingers. "And it will forever brun inside me for what I have done.
~ Thomas E. Sniegoski
'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
~ Thomas Fuller
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
~ Thomas Fuller
Good, but not religious-good.
~ Thomas Hardy
But sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience.
~ Thomas Hardy
Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.
~ Thomas Henry Huxley
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
~ Thomas Hobbes
A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous
~ Thomas Hobbes
The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
~ Thomas Huxley
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't
~ Thomas Keneally
A guilty conscience, urged with the thought Of former evils, easily cannot err.
~ Thomas Kyd