Quotes About Conscience

God is present in the Spirit, who groans wordlessly on our behalf and who speaks in a soft voice to all consciences attuned to him.

A single man's imperfect conscience can never be superior to centuries of tradition.

Gwyneth looks at me. What does it say? she asks. Nothing, I say. The lie comes to my mouth so swiftly that it must have been put there by God to help me, and therefore it does not count as a lie at all.

It affirmed that international law was not only law 'between States' but 'also the law of mankind'. Those who transgressed it would have no immunity, even if they were leaders, a reflection of the 'outraged conscience of the world'.

The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

Every man ought in every way to guard himself against doing wrong . . . And if he . . . does wrong, he ought of his own accord to go where he will be immediately punished; he will run to the judge, as he would to the physician, in order that the disease of injustice may not be rendered chronic and become the incurable cancer of the soul.

Where there is great power to do wrong, to live and to die justly is a hard thing.

the Thirty sent for me" says Socrates ". . .and ordered [me] to bring Leon the Salaminian to be put to death. . .I, however, showed again, by action, not in word only, that I did not care a whit for death. . .but that I did care with all my might not to do anything unjust or unholy… For that government, with all its power, did not frighten me into doing anything unjust…I simply went home.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws - Plato

DoÄŸru olan, yaln?z güçlünün iÅŸine geleni yapmak deÄŸil, tersini de, iÅŸine gelmeyeni yapmakt?r

People do not avoid the Bible because it is difficult to understand as much as because what they understand condemns their conscience and throws light on dark corners in their lives which they prefer to keep dark.

But the guilt is nebulous, not actual, and I'm not on the run from the law. Just from the lawless.

But that's what I love about punk music. It has a sense of humor about itself, doesn't pretend to be something it's not. It's kickass funk with a heavy-metal edge, but with a conscience." Good

There is no divine judge. So we must supply for ourselves notions of good and ill.

Nobody's inherently bad, said Annamaria. It's all about the choices we make. And the Deceiver, said Blossom, is always there to whisper the wrong choice in your ear. But I believe remorse can lead to redemption.

To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again.

All will be well, if we do what is right

Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost.

The killer walked with a light step that could be achieved only by someone not weighed down with a conscience, and went out into the night's embrace.

Because deception requires both bold lies and lies of omission, it stains the soul, muddies the conscience, blurs the vision, and puts you at risk of headlong descent into greater darkness. As a boy, I could not have put

To do...what you feel sure is right and in the aid of justice, you sometimes have to do things that...make you wonder if in fact you are the good man that you like to believe you are.

You're a murderer.' 'So are you' she said. 'No, I kill. You murder.' 'What's the difference?' 'I kill murderers.