Quotes About Conscience

The foundation of democracy is conscience—personal responsibility. The society that abandons moral absolutes must eventually degenerate into a police state. Well, this nation has abandoned morality. Is it realistic to think we can avoid the consequences?

The central problem with our world is not that it is wicked but that we allow it to be wicked.

Rogers held that there is not one fact or piece of data that will ever make war (or even preparing for war) morally permissible.

Why do people do evil things? Messenger's answer stunned me, "Why did you?

No law or prior pledge can insure loyalty if the cause itself becomes unworthy in the mind and conscience of the individual. In such cases, dishonoring the oath of allegiance may be a nobler course of action.

Charles Royster analyzes this pursuit of model-based heroism as: …a concern for… reputation in the word "honor. " The term referred not simply to. conscience or self-esteem, but also to pub- lic acknowledgement of(a) claim to respect. To have honor and to be honored were very close, if not the same.374

Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.

You can't escape moral judgment through a legal loop hole.

A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God

Lord, I don't understand it, but when a person does something wrong, it never feels wrong until later. It's never as evil as you'd imagined.

experience convinces me that no permanent good can come out of untruth and violence.

Do not expect to be applauded when you do the right thing, and do not expect to be forgiven when you err. But even your enemies will respect commitment - and a conscience at peace is worth more than a thousand tainted victories

Parents cannot impart righteousness to their children, but they can help them develop a firm commitment to righteousness. Parents cannot write the law on the hearts of their children, but they can weave the law and the gospel into their developing consciences.

Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.

I don't really understand it. Never have. The more I think on it the more it horrifies me. How can they look in the eyes of a man and make a slave of him and then quote the Bible?

Morality involves how we think and act toward other sentient beings and whether our thoughts and actions are right (good) or wrong (bad) with regard to their survival and flourishing.

But there was only so much temptation a man could resist without losing all respect for himself.

Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Jos hävittää moraalisuuden omasta persoonastaan, se on sama kuin karkoittaisi maailmasta moraalin, siinä määrin kuin se on itsestä kiinni.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

Why did something so wrong have to feel so right