Quotes About Conscience

Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.

Moral regrets sound like this: If only I'd done the right thing.

When we behave poorly, or compromise our belief in our own goodness, regret can build and then persist.

In the name of rejecting ecclesiastical authority as "hierarchy" or "tradition" as theological manipulation and bondage, we have instead created a hermeneutic of suspicion and have invested every biblically informed conscience (instead of a pope) to speak ex cathedra. It is a Pyrrhic victory for Free church Protestantism when the net effect of its teaching results in the replacing of the tyranny of the magisterium with the tyranny of individualism.

I may be capable of evil, son, but that doesn't mean I am.

By helping them understand the rules and limits in their respective environments, we help build their conscience.

There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic. They reflect three elemental possibilities (conscience, nature, and man), each of them manifesting itself as Christianity, materialism, and Islam.

People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views.

I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.

I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero's responsibility. If you have any kind of a social or political conscience at all, the first thing you want to do is make malevolence recognizable to people, almost as a kind of teaching aid.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.