Quotes About Conscience

I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.

What's your conscience?" "It's a meeting place for the things your heart feels and the things your head knows.

The problem is;doing bad in the name of good.

I seemed to be the only one who noticed, the only one who was concerned that doing the right thing for the wrong reason doesn't make you a person of integrity.

It is impossible to say precisely what will constitute the punishment of the wicked. Positively, it may be said that they will be totally deprived of the divine favor, will experience an endless disturbance of life, will suffer positive pains in body and soul, and will be subject to pangs of conscience, anguish, despair, and weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Schop de mensen tot ze een geweten krijgen.

If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

Since childhood, a sense of knowing right from wrong had been a steady compass for Raoul Wallenberg. This, more than the gun in his pocket, would be his courage.

Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.

But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good works. On tiptoes or bended knee. In a big career. Or a small cabin. It would find you. The past always did. Which was why... it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. And found you... Who wouldn't be afraid of this?

As a good rule of thumb, if you have to lie, you might be doing something wrong.

Oscar Wilde said that conscience and cowardice are the same thing. What stops us from doing horrible things isn't our conscience but the fear of getting caught.

He was tired of the tyranny of the greater good.

conscience is not necessarily a good thing. How many gays are beaten, how many abortion clinics bombed, how many blacks lynched, how many Jews murdered, by people just following their conscience?

Gamache watched the old poet. He knew what was looming behind the Mountain. What crushed all before it. The thing the Hermit most feared. The Mountain most feared. Conscience. ... Which is why, Gamache knew, it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. And found you ... Who wouldn't be afraid of this?

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.

The banality of evil. It wasn't the frothing madman. It was the conscientious us.

Shakespeare: …the best way to peace is to have a still and quiet conscience. Or none at all, thought Gamache.

That any decent person would've refused to participate in the Holocaust.

Conscience. Imagine being pursued by your own conscience….A mountain of conscience. Throwing a lengthening shadow. Growing. Darkening.

He knew she was right. But he could also feel his own conscience stirring. Accusing him of following the law, in lockstep. And marching right past common sense. Katie Evans was dead.

If this was the right thing to do, why did it feel so wrong? But no, it didn't feel wrong. It felt wretched. Horrific. A nightmare. But sometimes 'right' felt like that.

A barometer of a moral deficit.

Came a time when people of conscience had to take a stand.