Quotes About Conscience

Morality is good when we use it to live our lives but not to hurt anyone.

Feelings of guilt are the worst punishment. You are being punished by yourself.

The universe belongs to you, and you belong to your conscience.

Philosophy is the art of conscience.

The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't.

As my mind changes, so do my quotes. I empathize with those who, by force, are put on trial for their own clarity of conscience. For that, we must convene by force of argument.

A clear conscience is due to a poor memory.

If you witness evil men committing evil deeds and do nothing, what does that make you?

Be so strong that no one can ignore you. By blaming others you never win, but you do lose to your conscience again and again.

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?