Quotes About Conscience

Para mí, la esencia de la religión es el sentimiento de culpabilidad

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A great many young men try to justify themselves and check inward protests by the perpetual self-suggestion that it is better to keep on, for the present, in questionable occupations, because the great financial reward will put them in position to do better later. This is a sort of sedative to the conscience to keep it quiet until they can afford to listen to it.

To have done no man a wrong… to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude—this is to be a man

In a word trust that man in nothing. Who has not a conscience in everything. — Laurence Sterne

There is something inside of a man which protests against doing that which tends to injure another, that which does not square with his God nature, with the best thing in him; that which is not working in response to his highest aspiration.

He did what he thought was right

Wasn't that the definition of adulthood? That you wanted one thing, but did another because you knew what was right and good, and wanted to do the right and the good more than you wanted to do what you wanted.

A man who embraces the voice of evil when it whispers in his ear is no less evil than the whisperer.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

Save us from enormities whether open or hidden

To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

I followed my heart without breaking any rules.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness

Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.

If you pursue this road that you've embarked upon, you will eventually come to moral decisions that will take you completely by surprise

No, it wasn't quite true that John had no conscience at all. Everyone had one. But there were many voices in his head that had an easier time reaching him: his ambition, his desire for fame and success—and for revenge.

Guilt is a strong motivator, sometimes even stronger than love.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. Albert Einstein

It's our version of Christian guilt—it's impious to feel good about your piety. You have to want to be good, but not feel good about how good you are. The

There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.