Quotes About Conscience

I'd say I have no conscience, to a certain extent.

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

If you only get money, but you don't care about a thing, right or wrong, you cannot last. That cannot sustain you for the future.

The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking - something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation, stimulate their imagination, convince their reason, awaken their conscience.

I would feel so guilty about lying that I would try to stress myself out and work up a headache so I wouldn't have the guilt of not having a bit of the symptom.

All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.

There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.

Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.

It is fair, therefore, to assume that growing rationality is a guarantee of man's growing morality.

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

Under the claim of "religious freedom"—the cover for a gigantic new fictional creature called "corporate conscience"—the rights of workers could be given short shrift once again. [More on this in chapter 8.]

Nothing is quite so uncomfortable as a loose conscience.

Doing what is right, isn't always easy, nor was it meant to be. The path you wish to take will be opposed and sometimes one of those opposers is yourself.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Blaze himself was pretty sure he himself was going to hell, as were most other people. It was a dirty world, and the longer you lived, the dirtier you got.

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

have found by experience that an ignorant man who has been an unprofitable hearer has received more knowledge and remorse of conscience in half an hour's close discourse than he did in ten years of public preaching. I know that the public preaching of the gospel is the most excellent means of conversion because we speak to many at once, but it is usually far more effectual to preach it privately to an individual sinner.

Never do anything if it means you can't sleep at night.' It's a good rule to follow.

Never do anything if it means you can't sleep at night.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

this country has made a Fetish of democracy in the community, but in large part it's a guilty conscience because it's missing from the work life. And what possible excuse is there?