Quotes About Conscience

Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we "stand for" in life- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades to your life, with a clear conscience as a bonus.

Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.

Renan has the last word: "Man is a slave neither of his race nor his language, nor of his religion, nor of the course of rivers nor of the direction taken by mountain chains. A large aggregate of men, healthy in mind and warm of heart, creates the kind of moral conscience which we call a nation.

I am not as good as my ego suggests and not as bad as my conscience admonishes.

Know that you are a warrior... and that a true warrior carries love, courage, and her conscience into battle, as surely as she carries her sword.

She'd been taught all her life not to attack humans, but knocking them unconscious with tranquilizer guns was more of a gray area.

I know it's wrong, and it makes me sick, this new seething venom inside me, but I cannot help it.

In such dreadful times as these no one can do more than choose his own road according to his conscience, and bear the consequences of his choice, whatever they may be.

His remorse was purely physical. Only his body, strained nerves, and cowering flesh were afraid of the drowned man. Conscience played no part in his terrors, and he had not the slightest regret about killing Camille; in his moments of calm, when the spectre was not present, he would have committed the murder over again had he thought his interests required it.

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On ne garde pas ainsi son mal sur la conscience, jusqu'à en étouffer.

A French tribunal, after having allowed the reporter publicly to accuse a witness of every kind of error, decided to hear the case with closed doors when this witness was introduced to defend himself. I declare that this is one crime the more, and that this crime will rouse the universal conscience. Decidedly military tribunals have a peculiar idea of justice.

Belshazzar had a letter,— He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondent Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall.

Somewhere deep down, I know I'm in the wrong. I know I'm rationalizing my actions, and worry I might even be manufacturing problems with Andy to get this result. I also know that I'm only inviting more trouble into my life. But for now, I feel good. Really good. Better than I've felt in a long, long time.

Guilt was the sooty air we breathed these days.

Now I feel bad I didn't give her the second quarter. Grandma says that's called having a conscience.

And was his conscience not needling him, leeching some of the sweetness from his victory?

That's the problem with being a semi-reformed criminal: you are never free from guilt. Exposure is always just a phone call away.

Tis true I know what evil I shall do but passion overpowers the better council.

Empathy, alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

guilt force justification!

The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or what is bad for people, whether they are good or bad for society in a period of evolution. May be a voice crying in the wilderness, but only if that voice remains lively and uncompromising, it is possible to transform the desert into fertile land.

Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.