Quotes About Conscience

At least some of the time, the world appears to me as a painting by Hieronymous Bosch; were I to follow my conscience then, it would lead me out onto the desert with Marion Faye, out to where he stood in The Deer Park looking east to Los Alamos and praying, as if for rain, that it would happen: '…let it come and clear the rot and the stench and the stink, let it come for all of everywhere, just so it comes and the world stands clear in the white dead dawn.

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and you've done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

How far can a person go... and still live with himself.

Its better to be cheated,than to be a cheater....

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience...

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Yeah I'm a bad person somedays I don't feel bad about it. I do more good than bad anyway when I wanna cut loose and offend some people.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.

It takes alot for me to say I'm sorry

The worse a person is the less he feels it.

If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.

Do what you know is right & importance, it is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, & personal satisfaction.

One who does not act in accordance to the deep voice of his inner conscience can't be honest, truthful, trustworthy, loyal and faithful to anyone.

The only thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Never let your sense of duty, loyalty, or obligation get in the way of doing what's right.

When a man won't listen to his conscience, it's usually because he doesn't want advice from a total stranger.

No affliction or temptation, no guilt nor power of sin, no wounded spirit nor terrified conscience, should induce us to despair of help and comfort from God.