Quotes About Conscience

Shades of gray, I thought, knowing I was slipping into places I had vowed I'd never go.

It's the love of right lures men to wrong.

Vicdan ancak dans hocas? Shakespeare taraf?ndan icat edilmi?ti

Many historians have concluded that one reason for the increasingly negative view of the Negro through the later eighteenth century was the need to salve the consciences of those who trafficked in and exploited enslaved men and women. As Grégoire put it, bleakly but bluntly, "People have slandered Negroes, first in order to get the right to enslave them, and then to justify themselves for having enslaved them. . . ."14

The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything. You people with hearts, he said, have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.

Fat babies! Don't they sound delicious? But I've never eaten any, because my conscience tells me it is wrong. If I had no conscience I would probably eat the babies and then get hungry again, which would mean that I had sacrificed the poor babies for nothing. No; hungry I was born, and hungry I shall die. But I'll not have any cruel deeds on my conscience to be sorry for.

But why fight at all, in that case? asked the girl. So I may die with a clear conscience, returned the Wizard, gravely. It's every man's duty to do the best he knows how; and I'm going to do it.

Vocês que têm coração, podem sempre se guiar por ele, e nunca fazem mal aos outros. Mas eu não tenho coração, e por isso preciso tomar muito cuidado.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't decide right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.

It is easier to get rid of one's religion than to get rid of one's sins.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.