Quotes About Conscience

This is Maximilien de Robespierre, barrister-at-law: unmarried, personable, a young man with all his life before him. Today against his most deeply held convictions he has followed the course of the law and sentenced a criminal to death. And now he is going to pay for it.

But the winter king, less occupied, will begin to think about his conscience. He will begin to think about his pride. He will begin to prepare the prizes for those who can deliver him results.

Henry," the archbishop says, "I have seen you promote within your own court and council persons whose principles and morals will hardly bear scrutiny. I have seen you deify your own will and appetite, to the sorrow and scandal of Christian people. I have been loyal to you, to the point of violation of my own conscience. I have done much for you, but now I have done the last thing I will ever do.

My conscience holds with the majority, which makes me know it does not speak false. "Against Henry's kingdom, I have all the kingdoms of Christendom. Against each one of your bishops, I have a hundred saints. Against your one parliament, I have all the general councils of the church, stretching back for a thousand years.

Let us say, his will is convinced, but not his conscience.

Ask Robespierre. Ask the man with the conscience which is more important, your friend or your country— ask him how he weighs an individual in the scheme of things. Ask him which comes first, his old pals or his new principles. You ask him, Camille.

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

Why do you find it easy to kill? These are lives dammit!

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

may be cruel, a monster, and a murderer, but I do not shirk my responsibilities.

Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses against himself.

Notre conscience est un juge infaillible, quand nous ne l'avons pas encore assassinée.

We estimate wrongdoing in proportion to the purity of our conscience

build no barricades when no one attacks you. Don't excite tempests of heart and conscience merely to pacify your conscience and quiet your heart, now ruffled only by a tiny breeze.

Nunca he matado a un hombre desarmado y nunca he asesinado por placer.

Shame, however, was what I felt seeping through me as though it stained my white bones black.

No paradigm shift could eliminate a good strong dose of Catholic guilt.

But wherever we labour, the rule and the profession of the Apostle must be ours; and whatever be our personal mistakes and failures, God grant that our consciences may never accuse us of being ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.

If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.

If a man seeks to drink enough to blind his conscience, tis acquavit or nothing.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

It really hurts me very much to suppose that I have wronged anybody on earth.

Ethics are more important than law.