Quotes About Conscience

The wicked flee when no man pursueth.

You see, they assumed that Man has a moral instinct." "Sir? I thought—But he does! I have." "No, my dear, you have a cultivated conscience, a most carefully trained one. Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not—and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.

I wonder if it's a special sin to lie to a nun

Nightmares ended when you woke up. Guilt never ended, worse in the dark of the night but with you all the time, day or night.

Cole stared at the Pinocchio clock, then a small ceramic figurine of Jiminy Cricket a client had given him. Let your conscience be your guide. Everyone needed a Jiminy.

I leaned against the fence and crossed my arms and stared at her. After a while she looked over and said, "Why are you staring at me?" "Because I am the Lord High Keeper of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong, and I am trying to figure out what to do." She blinked at me. "Jiminy Cricket," I said. "He was also Counselor in Moments of Temptation, and Guide Along the Straight and Narrow Path. You need that.

I left them to their lives and walked out into the sun. You want to do the right thing, but sometimes there is no right thing to be done.

His conscience never bothered him, because when he failed, he would go straight to the Lord, saying, This is what I'll always naturally do if I'm left on my own, Lord. If he didn't stumble, though, he would always give God the credit.

Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.

For instance, when I flung the cat out of an upper window (though I did it from no ill-feeling, and it didn't hurt the cat), I was ready, after a moment's reflection, to own I was wrong, as a gentleman should. But was the matter allowed to end there? I trow not.

I never wanted to safe... I wanted to be good.

Religion fared badly in so much of the history he wrote about, and yet he was constantly surprised by how much solace he gained from places of worship. It wasn't redemptive, nothing to do with conscience—more the strange sense of meaningful emptiness he found in these places, a quality that allowed him to disappear effortlessly. The

When had doing the right thing stopped being the automatic option and become something that had to be worked at instead?

She's got a way of making a man feel guilty for certain things he'd never feel bad about on his own, like watching someone shoot himself in the face.

There is a way to be good again For you, a thousand times over Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie

Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.

Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. Do you understand that?

There is only one sin. And that is theft . . . When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth.

But I hope you will heed this: A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Pero espero que prestes atención a lo siguiente: el hombre sin conciencia, sin bondad, no sufre. Espero que tu sufrimiento llegue a su fin con este viaje a Afganistán.

There is nothing so seductive to a girl as to be loved by a poetic-depressive type. And if she is vain enough to deceive herself into thinking that she loves him faithfully by clinging to him instead of giving him up, then her task will be easy. She will enjoy both the distinction and the good conscience of being faithful, and at the same time the most finely distilled romantic love. God save everyone from such faithfulness!

Breaking rules isn't bad when what you're doing is more important than the rule itself

Piscary killed people, but he didn't have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish and to stop eating people. But Trent? He knew he was doing wrong, and he did it anyway.

Just what I need. My own personal shoulder devil, wearing black and smelling like the Garden of Eden.