Quotes About Conscience

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

I never listen to what people tell me and I can't read. The only way I know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it's wrong. If I feel good, it's right.

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.

Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

I believe there's things all around us that make you do good things and some that make you do bad things.

Lastly, waging war against good people is bad for the soul. This may not seem important to you now, but it's the most important thing I've said.

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

Guilt is always a good thing. If I kick you in the groin right now and don't feel guilty about it there's something wrong with me. Something's wrong with my conscience.

Not good vs evil. Only good vs evil is inside of you

D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.

The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.