Quotes About Conscience

Guilt was a form of debt, and she was always in the red.

With fierce hate harbored by a few and complacency displayed by the rest. All it takes for evil to take hold and flourish is for men and women of conscience to do nothing.

How did it ever come to this?" I asked him. "The same way it always has and—to our great misfortune—probably always will. With fierce hate harbored by a few and complacency displayed by the rest. All it takes for evil to take hold and flourish is for men and women of conscience to do nothing.

Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.

What should matter is whether or not you can live with who you are.

Conscience is a formidable and determined adversary. By nature, it strikes the weakest point in a man's reasoning. His

Conscience is a formidable and determined adversary. By nature, it strikes the weakest point in a man's reasoning.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

Men?s minds are generally ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves.

Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.

Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking.

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

All Reformers, however strict their Conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.

Nearly everybody yields up his conscience, his practical judgment, into the keeping of others.

It is so easy to do a dirty thing with self-satisfaction when it consists in abstaining from action.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and nobody to be kicked?

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.