Quotes About Conscience

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life

The highest freedom is the freedom from evil, not the freedom of doing evil.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

How many people, I wonder, can be penned up and tormented—reeducated—before it begins to matter to the majority of Americans? How does this penning people up look to other countries?

A biological conscience is better than no conscience at all.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

Oameni nu sunt invatati sa fie virtuosi, ci sa se comporte cum trebuie. Suntem rai pentru ca suntem prea constienti de propriul sine. Nu iertam niciodata pentru ca stim ca si noi gresim. Ne facem probleme de constiinta tocmai pentru ca ne e frica sa spunem adevarul in fata altora; ne refugiem in mandrie pentru ca ne temem sa recunoastem adevarul in fata propriei constiinte. Cum ar putea cineva sa ia lumea in serios, cand lumea in sine este un lucru ridicol?!

Oamenii nu sunt invatati sa fie virtuosi, ci sa se comporte cum trebuie. Suntem rai pentru ca suntem prea constienti de propriul sine. Nu iertam niciodata pentru ca stim ca si noi gresim. Ne facem probleme de constiinta tocmai pentru ca ne e frica sa spunem adevarul in fata altora; ne refugiem in mandrie pentru ca ne temem sa recunoastem adevarul in fata propriei constiinte. Cum ar putea cineva sa ia lumea in serios, cand lumea in sine este un lucru ridicol?!

that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny.

I felt as if the words I had spoken that day had soiled my tongue and mouth.

The pain which conscience gives the man who has already done wrong is soon got over. Conscience is a coward; and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?

Actions punishable by jail sentences are not the only crimes. If we knew the antonym of crime, I think we would know its true nature. God . . . salvation . . . love . . . light. But for God there is the antonym Satan, for salvation there is perdition, for love there is hate, for light there is darkness, for good, evil. Crime and prayer? Crime and repentance? Crime and confession? Crime and ... no, they're all synonymous. What is the opposite of crime?

Power without morality leads to abuse, and freedom without morality leads to depravity.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.

Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.

These sermons of Jesus Christ are meant for your will and your conscience, not for your head. If you dispute these verses from the Sermon on the Mount with your head, you will dull the appeal to your heart.