Quotes About Conscience

The promises made by a guilty conscience acknowledge and settle no debts...

Å, Anna Aemelin, det eneste du bryr deg om, er din egen samvittighet, det er den du pleier.

I know you value the rules, but sometimes . . . sometimes breaking them is the right thing to do. I

I think Farmer taps into a universal anxiety and also into a fundamental place in some troubled consciences, into what he calls "ambivalence," the often unacknowledged uneasiness that some of the fortunate feel about their place in the world, the thing he once told me he designed his life to avoid.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them. Human beings are in this world to learn and to change themselves in learning.

Then who do we answer to? Ourselves?" "Of course. Who else can we trust to wield our power? We must follow our own consciences." - Corran and Jacen

Caring deeply is the only measure that matters. That's why their consciences remain untroubled, no matter how many times they violate the standards they demand of others.

If so, it was bad, it was very, very bad that a part of him was tempted not to stop them.

We need to understand how the Apostle Peter believed and explained the baptism of Jesus? In 1 Peter 3:21 he said, "There is also an antitype which now saves us-baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ." The Apostle Peter is telling us the baptism Jesus received from John the Baptist is an antitype of the salvation of how He atoned for our sins.

Goodness deliberately chooses to do the right thing and firmly resists what is wrong. Merely avoiding bad things doesn't make women good.

Courage without conscience," wrote Robert Green Ingersoll, "is a wild beast.

The point is, however: God save us all from the moral zealot who places himself above the law and is willing to burn my house down, and yours, providing he feels he is sufficiently right and I sufficiently wrong.

Before you develop a conscience, torture is amusing.

Are you sure what you're doing is wrong?

I still wonder how policy officials... can sit down at the table with their families and have any appetite for food, or go to sleep at night, knowing that they failed to act. Human beings were sacrificed for political convenience. This would be enough, I think, to turn any reasonable man into a prisoner of his own conscience for the rest of his life.

I came to see that for him, for most sociopaths, he had no memory—took no responsibility for anything he'd said or done—had no past, no history, it never happened. Memory is essential to conscience; he had no conscience.

I had felt myself not merely incapable of love . . . but even of guilt.

Some people were born unsupplied with a human conscience and those people needed killing.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

What is the conscience? It is the most highly developed part of the human being, the core of the spirit, the most sensitive, the most tender.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.