Quotes About Conscience

The world has become a better place in which to live because of persons who have made it a habit to try to do the right thing only because it was right.

He wanted a race of men who would no longer depend upon free will, ethics, morals or conscience for guidance. Perhaps, without quite realizing it, Marx was setting out to create a race of human beings conditioned to think like criminals.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

I turn away and shut the door, and on the stair Wonder how many times I could have proved my worth In something that all others understand or share; But O! ambitious heart, had such a proof drawn forth A company of friends, a conscience set at ease, It had but made us pine the more. The abstract joy, The half-read wisdom of daemonic images, Suffice the ageing man as once the growing boy.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

Integrity means having the courage to do what is right, and what is aligned with your values, no matter the situation.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

I would often be a coward but for the shame of it.

I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.

We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

This is not the position in life that I had hoped to fill. I want to be an obstetrician. Who quarrels with an obstetrician? Even the obstetrician who delivered Bugsy Siegel goes to bed at night with a clear conscience.

But what he no longer had was a conscience he could live with.

The church works best as a separate force, a conscience to society that keeps itself at arm's length from the state. The closer it gets, the less effectively it can challenge the surrounding culture and the more perilously it risks losing its central message. Jesus left his followers the command to make disciples from all nations. We have no charge to "Christianize" the United States or any other country — ?an impossible goal in any case.

The church works best as a force of resistance, a conscience to society that keeps itself at arm's length from the state. The closer it gets, the less effectively it can challenge the surrounding culture and the more perilously it risks losing its central message.