Quotes About Conscience

The man dies in all those that keep silent.

Right is more precious than peace.

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Le regret est un état d'âme. Le remords est un cas de conscience. Et je n'ai ni l'un ni l'autre. (p.57)

Moshen has gradually stopped dreaming. The light of his conscience has gone out.

The one thing he did die a martyr to was his own conscience. He wanted to do the right thing because it was his idea of the thing to do, and for that—and that alone—he died. This is the satisfaction which you and I will always have.

I'm just not going to do it so that we can say that we've done it. And I'm not going to do it if the first thing you say afterwards is 'please don't tell anyone' or 'let's forget it ever happened'. If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!

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Devil triumphs when good men do nowt

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

A clean conscience is expensive, it's the reason most men have to live paycheck to paycheck.

He thought: Because when you tell a lie it must be to keep from saying a worse thing. Then lying is not a Sin and God will not punish you. (But what if God is one of them?)

There is nothing more you can do to hurt me now. You have already broken the man you knew, crucified every part of my humanity and left me with nothing except the ruins of what I once was. Why do you look away? Have you developed a conscience? What a burden it must be to you.

The right path and easy path are usually two different things, and when it's time to choose, always choose the right path over the easy.

Sorry, sorry, sorry. Oh, you can pile on as many as you want, but the guilt is still there, like that pea under all those mattresses.

And conscience—his thinking was so black and white he thought I was going to hell for having premarital sex. It didn't cross his mind that throwing a water glass across the room at me when he'd found out I'd had premarital sex was not exactly heaven-bound behavior.

Reject evil. Choose the good.

Evil isn't born...Neither is purity. Because even as newborns, there is something wrong inside of all of us bound to spring up and activate itself within us.

The wider our conscience, the wider the impact of our actions, and I do believe someone with more light has the moral duty to enlighten others.

Blessed is he who keeps his hands from doing evil.