Quotes About Conscience

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Just give her your goddamn window seat, for the love of Christ, she's a stone cold fox, whispered the little red devil that always wants to get laid from his perch just behind my left ear.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.

Look to your health and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being." —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Or perhaps the syndrome we are witnessing is preemptive capitulation: If we reduce our conscience to rubble before the bad men get here, they will have nothing to destroy.

How conscience tells us that we ought to be fair, nobody knows. This we can say: we don't know it just from being told, we don't know it from the five senses, and we don't know it by inference from prior knowledge. We just know it. The knowledge is "underived.

Those who do not accept conscience as a teacher must face it as an accuser.

Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

Yet our common moral knowledge is as real as arithmetic, and probably just as plain. Paradoxically, maddeningly, we appeal to it even to justify wrongdoing; rationalization is the homage paid by sin to guilty knowledge.

The problem was not that they failed to find these principles written upon their hearts, but that they could not bring themselves to attend closely to the inscription.

We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

Knowledge cannot be pursued without morality.

Why should your conscience be any more reliable than your rotting teeth or your quite special defect of eyesight?

Already there was talk of abortion, which Chesterton described as a "more than usually barbaric form of birth control," which goes against every instinct and "the common conscience of men."88 He said it should be called by its real name: "murder at its worst; not only the brand of Cain but the brand of Herod.

We have taken government and turned it into a surrogate parent, even a surrogate self, as we let regulation replace conscience. We

We stumble into our graves knowing so well how to have done better.

Down here in the deep, dark South we know and live with the real world. Candy-Land idealism is quietlly suffocated in the relentless humidity. This is the world where fist meets face. This is where the calluses on a man's hand are bigger than his conscience, and dreams get drowned in sweat and tears.

What are you going to teach me about right and wrong? I know what is wrong. I have done wrong. I am told every day, by every face I see, every wall I face, that I am wrong.

As a warrior, I am a man of conscience, and that conscience is directed by my faith in the Emperor.

Use discipline to build character and conscience, not enemies.

Patriotism would require standing up to what I had seen, not standing alongside it in silence.