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Quotes About Conscience

I am not conscious of any harm that I have done or wished to any mortal. I bear no malice to any being. To my enemies, if any I have, I am willing to afford assistance; therefore towards man I maintain a conscience void of offense.
~ Abigail Adams
When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad, I feel bad, and that's my religion.
~ Abraham Lincoln
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
~ Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Doing the wrong thing to do the right thing
~ Abraham Verghese
Updike quashed the voice of his conscience, while at the same time clinging to a "me-first Salvationism.
~ Adam Begley
Forgetting one's participation in mass murder is not something passive; it is an active deed. In
~ Adam Hochschild
That Newton shuddered now [at slavery] is a testimony to they way a strong social movement can awaken a conscience..
~ Adam Hochschild
O nie! nie... nie... ?eby j? zabi?, Trzeba by? troch? wi?cej ni? pierwszym z szatanów! Precz to ?elazo! (chowa) niech j? w?asna pami?? goni, (Ksi?dz odchodzi) Niech j? sumienia sztylety rani?!
~ Adam Mickiewicz
Morality born of intimidation is immoral.
~ Adam Phillips
Righteousness and evil are not character traits determined in advance or by heredity, but lie rather in the hand of each one of us.
~ Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz
Conscience is a Jewish invention.
~ Adolf Hitler
Hiç ÅŸüphe yok ki, her zaman birtak?m vicdandan yoksun kimseler bulunur. Böyle kimseler ayn? zamanda dini kendi karanl?k siyasi görüÅŸlerine alet ederler.
~ Adolf Hitler
Memory says: Want to do right? Don't count on me.
~ Adrienne Rich
I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.
~ Beatrice Dalle
I think guilt can be good to a small degree, keep you on the right path.
~ Joe Buck
Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.
~ Viggo Mortensen
There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.
~ Joe Wright
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
~ Heywood Broun
The fight goes on with or without me, I'm just a pawn. But at least I'm a pawn on the morally right side.
~ Peter Sunde
While the federal government is committed to paying 100% of the cost of new people in Medicaid, I cannot, in good conscience, deny the uninsured access to care.
~ Rick Scott
It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.
~ George McGovern
I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.
~ Adam Weishaupt