Quotes About Conscience

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.

My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principle.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

Be honest in every way and enjoy the peace that only a clear conscience can bring you.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.

Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.

If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?

Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.

The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace but a canting impotence.

Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in peace.