Quotes About Conscience

There is no stricter moralist than Fear; and no moralist is a stranger to Fear.

I wasn't vegetarian yet -- I was young and my conscience still under construction. (Kelly Johnson)

Education that gives priority to measurement rather than values, to efficiency rather than conscience, to information rather than ethics, provides no barrier to barbarity and violence. The Holocaust was perpetrated by a society of the most disciplined, highly educated people on earth.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Freedom comes from moral self-control. There is no other way to achieve it.

The reason evil can triumph is because the good people either do nothing or turn a blind eye. Thus the serious threat to the Peace in our world is coming from not only the evil people but also from the good people who opt to do nothing.

Three wise monkeys who teach to 'speak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil' signify refraining totally from evil, yet they also represent 'good people' who do nothing about evil, feign ignorance, and turn a blind eye to misappropriate behaviors. It's possible that evil won't prevail in the society, if good people stop to stand by, and take positive steps to stand up and be counted.

She's you, without your conscience, or your feelings. She's you without your humanity." "You're saying she's a mood swing?" He shrugged. "Or maybe you're her mood swing." "Don't even joke about that.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.

The knowledge of evil tempteth to its commission.

In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil.

Knowledge is truthful only if it's based in morality.

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

You must do right before you feel good.

You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.

What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.