Quotes About Conscience

My conscience, Sensei, tells me I cannot remain forever an artist of the floating world.

Sometimes doing the right thing was not nearly as easy as one might think. Which was perhaps why people did the wrong things so often.

I make the choice because it is one I can live with.

Guilt comes back to haunt us in the weirdest ways.

Hemingway had a handy dictum. You want to know if something is morally right? Listen to your stomach. If it sits like broken glass, then it's morally wrong.

You didn't ask for a priest." "Whether I've been good or bad, I don't think God will be fooled by a last-minute change of heart.

After all, if you can't kill a man in front of God's face you probably shouldn't kill him at all.

People know the difference between right and wrong—and if they don't, that's what priests are for.

And that would be sufficient, if we lived in a world that was ruled by laws." Aldred sat on a stool, leaned forward, and spoke quietly. "But the man matters more than the law, as you know.

En definitiva, hasta las personas más crueles tienen algún escrúpulo.

Siempre es el momento propicio para hacer lo correcto.

Justice was done. Swithin was a murderer and a rapist who deserved to die. But I found that my conscience was not untroubled. I had lured him into an ambush. In a way the death of poor George Cox was my responsibility. I had meddled in things that should have been left to the law or, failing that, to God. I may yet go through anguish in hell for my sin. But if I had to live that time again I would do the same

We never forgive those we've wronged.

Cómo debo vivir?». La respuesta de Tolstói era: «Tú conoces en tu corazón lo que es recto».

Même les gens les plus impitoyables ont parfois des scrupules.

My father hated people who preached about morality. We're all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn't count. It's when you want so badly to do something wrong - when you're about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor's wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble - that's when you need the rules.

My father hated people who preached about morality. We're all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn't count. It's when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you're about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor's wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble—that's when you need the rules. Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn't wave it until you're about to put it to the test.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.

A just man is not one who does no ill, But he, who with the power, has not the will.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

The conscience of a people is their power.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.