Quotes About Conscience

On the radio, I heard someone define ethics as "obedience to the unenforceable." Not bad. You do it for inner reasons, not because someone is keeping score, or because you might be punished if you break the rules and get caught. You are marching to the beat of your own drummer.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child

What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience?

How can something as necessary as breathing be immoral?

I couldn't just start killing people. That wasn't really my thing.

I don't fear for a physical death, but when my conscience dies, that is a real death

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

Keep conscience clear, then never fear.

If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.

He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.

O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.

Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.

ThereÂ's a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.

Your personal values are not just what you espouse. It is how you behave and react in the face of temptation, under pressure, even when you know that no one else would know.

Never choose the easy path, choose the one that has morals! It's YOUR life, live it! Be honest, follow your heart and do the right thing! God sees and knows all!

Remorse is the poison of life.

To do the easy thing is simple. To do the right thing is difficult.

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.