Quotes About Conscience

When I do good, I feel good... when I do bad I feel bad, that's my religion.

My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death

the conscience of universe itself lies in the path of equality and so is the gods

Conscience is worse than death, some people commit suicide to evade it.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.

But the insane need to do it was stronger than the sense of whether it was a wrong or right thing to do.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

A decision as a backbencher to vote against one's party ought not to be taken lightly.

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.

We did it because it was the right thing to do.

doing and not doing, everyone's conscience finds its

I build your robust image, knowing nothing of the woman   whose heart you rent, if your conscience scolds, or regret bites,   the frets, the dreams you dream awake, the sirens that rouse you in the night.

Moments came back to him when he had behaved less honorably than he wished. He remembered instances of neglect and ingratitude. He felt the pang of remorse and resolved not to do the same again.

Guilt slithered through e like a poisonous snake.

where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency." A good place to start, but I am afraid it is seldom that simple. The black-and-white is easy; the tough choices are gray.

The socialist temptation is widely described by conservatives as the temptation to live off "free stuff." But this is not so—the temptation is actually more complex. It is the temptation to annihilate one's conscience by feeling justified in living off other people's work.

For Alinsky, morality is a scam. Morality is the cloak of power. Activists appeal to the language of morality but recognize that it is a mere disguise. As Alinsky puts it, "Ethical standards must be elastic to stretch with the times. . . . In action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent with one's individual conscience. . . . You do what you can with what you have, and then clothe it with moral garments."13 In

No. Your crime has no conscience. You haven't been driven to do it by some oppressive social force. How I hate to be reasonable. You're not against the rich. Nobody's against the rich. Everybody's ten seconds from being rich. Or so everybody thought. No. Your crime is in your head. Another fool shooting up a diner because because