Quotes About Conscience

for falling into conversation with strangers; and that freedom from conscience that springs from a contempt for the dozing rich he preyed upon.

I just want to sleep with a clear conscience and wake up with the ability to look at myself in the mirror. I also want my life to be my own. Even if it's a shitty goddamn life, it's still mine.

For what it's worth, I don't go out of my way to be difficult. I just want to sleep with a clear conscience and wake up with the ability to look at myself in the mirror. I also want my life to be my own. Even if it's a shitty goddamn life, it's still mine.

All I can say is that you have to live with your conscience at the end of your life, and it's the only thing that you have that belongs to yourself and nobody else.

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

The fact that we were encouraged to follow our conscience and not to follow the crowds - that's something I really miss. On the other hand, there were things that drove me nuts in the '60s. There was an aspect of the hippie movement that everyone is an artist, which is lethal.

I was raised with a sense of duty, obedience and guilt.

In some states, the attorney general is appointed, but in New York state it's an independently elected position. The New York attorney general has an obligation to the people first, to her conscience and to the rule of law, not to the governor, and not to the legislature.

When I see something that I think isn't right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.

I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.

Obviously everybody is accountable for their own actions, and everybody has to make judgments based on their own conscience as to whether or not they believe what they were doing is right or wrong.

Israel is the heart of all nations." It was the conscience and the raw exposed nerve; all emotion passed through it. But it was more than that; it was the heart that suffered whenever any part of the body was ill.

For guilt was the existential edge of sex. Without guilt, sex was meaningless.

One never does wrong by doing right.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay

Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobody is going to know whether you did it or not.

big proclamations about honor are really just excuses invented to let people kill each other with a clear conscience.

A miniaturist creates his art by heeding his conscience and by obeying the principles in which he believes, fearing nothing. he pays no attention to what his enemies, the zealots and those who envy him have to say.