Quotes About Conscience

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone, are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen long ago! from We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust

I still feel really bad about it," said Jessie. "That's good," said Grandma.

You have that syndrome that chronically sick kids get, like overdeveloped conscience syndrome," she announced. "You made that up." Juliet laughed. "I did. You have it though. You always feel like you're inconveniencing somebody." "I am always inconveniencing somebody. I'm an inconvenient person." "But you're not. We didn't ask to be born this way, Allie. The world owes you one. Not the other way around.

Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.

?o sa potom stane, ak na druhej strane - a teraz z h?adiska ?udského dobra - mravné svedomie umelca za predpokladu, že ho má, prehlási, že nie?o v diele, ?o je umelecky dobré a nutné, pokým môže súdi?, je mravne zlé a musí sa teda zmeni?? ..potom sa umelec musí snaži?, aby o?istil svoj prame?. nie je to pohodlné a je na to treba ve?kú trpezlivos?. iné reálne riešenie neexistuje.

Declaration of Conscience," delivered on the Senate floor, derided McCarthy's "Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear." She and Kefauver were thus allies against

I'm a good self-starter when it comes to guilt.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

Better a shamed face than a stained heart,' Teresita announced.

The only reason to sign [petitions] is to assuage the conscience of the signatory.

Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.

Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one level of cruelty—or violence—he builds to the next.

Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen.

Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.

We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put it to rest. When a man has this certainty, he has overcome the serpent; but if he be doubtful of the doctrine, it is for him very dangerous to dispute with the devil.

But no matter how clearly I saw what I was doing, I would go on doing it, as though I simply allowed my shame to sit there alongside my need to do it, one separate from the other. I often chose to do the wrong thing and feel bad about it rather than to do the right thing, if the wrong thing was what I wanted.

Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.

An untempted soul may be innocent, but cannot be virtuous, for virtue is the choice of right when wrong presses itself upon us and demands our choosing.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation --must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.

Every time you compromise, something inside your spirit dies a little

SECRET #32 You don't need a thanks to know you've done the right thing.