Quotes About Conscience

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

Evil will win if good people do nothing.

We need to believe that we're good people, and we'll do just about anything to maintain that perception.

Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.

Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.

Two voices struggled inside me. One that wanted to be good and brave, and one that told the good one to keep her mouth shut.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.