Quotes About Conscience

Honesty is basic. It is true that lying is an accomplice to every other form of vice. Or, as someone has said, 'Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.' (O. W. Holmes, in The Home Book of Quotations, p. 1111.)

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.

Taking another life, she had whispered, even a guilty one, should never be easy. If it were, we'd be little more than animals.

Taking a life, even a guilty one, should never be easy. If it were, we'd be little more than animals.

Killing is different from thinking about killing.

I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.

That is the definition of true courage," the teacher said quietly. "Being frightened, yet still doing what is right.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything… that smacks of discrimination or slander.

Every now and then, I felt a teeny-weeny bit of guilt about what I was doing. But I needed the money more than I needed a good conscience.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Feeling one ought to apologize is not quite the same thing as saying 'I am sorry' " -Penelope

Nothing can be traded if the price is compromising of your character.

Sería imposible describir el peso de toda esa culpa.

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

here's a toast to Alan Turing born in harsher, darker times who thought outside the container and loved outside the lines and so the code-breaker was broken and we're sorry yes now the s-word has been spoken the official conscience woken – very carefully scripted but at least it's not encrypted – and the story does suggest a part 2 to the Turing Test: 1. can machines behave like humans? 2. can we?

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.

for those that would be kept from any sin must be careful to avoid all temptations to it, and every thing that looks towards it or leads to it.