Quotes About Conscience

Vernunft und Herz müssen miteinander wirken, wenn eine wahre Sittlichkeit zustande kommen soll.

Alguien puede estar mal, pero eso no implica hacer el mal.

Dat is mijn misdaad... ik heb gezondigd in onverschilligheid...

Del mismo modo que "el corazón tiene razones que la razón desconoce", la conciencia tiene razones que el corazón desconoce, y para ciertos seres humanos los dictados de su conciencia suelen estar por encima de los dictados de su corazón. Al fin y al cabo, con demasiada frecuencia los dictados del corazón no son más que los dictados del deseo recubiertos de un ligero barniz de romanticismo.

A land ethic, then, reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land. Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. Conservation is our effort to understand and preserve this capacity.

Obligations have no meaning without conscience, and the problem we face is the extension of the social conscience from people to land.

Obligations have no meaning without conscience, and the problem we face is the extension of the social conscience from people to the land

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state needs them to preserve its power. Laws devised for the depravity of power are as worthless as the paper they are printed on.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

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

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts.

They know their crime," she said. "They know their shame.

It's about doing the right thing even if you don't want to do it. About taking responsibility for your actions...it's about letting go when you really, really want to hold on so bad.

The apostolic character, in short, must combine freedom of conscience, enlargement of heart, enlightenment of mind, and all in the superlative degree.

His heart is in perfect peace, for He has two great consolations. He has a good conscience: He can say, "I have overcome the world." He has held fast His moral integrity against incessant temptation

With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution…. This is the music everyone who has ears should hear.

Besides other impediments, it may be remarked that, where there is a consciousness of unjust or dishonorable purposes, communication is always checked by distrust in proportion to the number whose concurrence is necessary

A gude conscience is the best divinity.

The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That's how most people thought.

How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.