Quotes About Conscience

What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the same.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.

My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.

I hope you find peace, my brother. (Acheron) Peace walks hand in hand with a quite conscience. (Savitar)

Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust.

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

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.

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

~ Tolerance increases hope between people and their voice of conscience.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.

Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.

Holding back is so close to stealing.

I wouldn't hunt a person down for food. But if he were already dead.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.