Quotes About Conscience

Consider a reevaluation of the situation, assuming it exists a blockage of our mind. The zero moment of the conscience is not the worst situation, but the best possible.(...). Our mind is empty, with a hollow and flexible disposition of beginners mind (…) Think, for a change, that this moment should be appreciated, and not feared. If our mind is really blocked, then we may be in a better situation than when it was overloaded with ideas.

If supremacy of conscience means anything, it means that the inner integrity of the individual is more important than any mental construct. If love means anything, it means accepting others in their differences from oneself as well as in their similarities.

the frontal cortex makes you do the harder thing when it's the right thing to do

No puedes declararme culpable de pecados cometidos en sueños.

Guilt is worse than greed, for guilt robs the body of its soul.

never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

I find it is not always easy to be sure whether your deeds are good or bad.

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

Fark?nda olmadan kötülük yapmak çok kolayd?r, öyle deÄŸil mi?

Where is my conscience, Anne? I want to know. Is it in my stomach?

Tenía la incómoda sensación de que era algo pecaminoso entregar el corazón con tanta intensidad a una criatura humana y quizá se había sometido a una especie de penitencia inconsciente siendo más estricta y crítica con aquella niña.

They moved to the new centers of trade and prospered, because they lived by the standard that "conscience is a pretty thing to carry to Church," but he who "pursueth it in fair market or shop may die a beggar.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. - Mark Twain

Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.' 'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as we please. That's the difference between us and everything else in creation.

But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.

There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.

Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.

Some of the most deeply moral people I knew were least politically correct, because they actually worried about good and evil, not just what they were told was good or bad.

I didn't say anything because I didn't have anything good to say. Just lately I had noticed that I could kill people and not blink. No attack of conscience, no nightmares, nothing. It was like some part of me had turned off. It didn't bother me that I was able to kill so easily. It did bother me that it didn't bother me. But it had its uses, like tonight. I think every last furry one of them had believed I'd do it. Sometimes, it was good to be scary.

There was something a little frightening about a man who knew he was not a nice person and didn't give a damn. It went against everything America holds dear.

Guilt is a wonderful motivator.

There are some things that are more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror. I gave up my gun for the same reason I'd stopped for the child. There was no choice. I was one of the good guys. Good guys were self-sacrificing. It was a rule somewhere.

Lastly, people seemed to think that morality was the same thing as being politically correct, and it wasn't. Some of the most deeply moral people I knew were least politically correct, because they actually worried about good and evil, not just what they were told was good or bad.

creeping dread that comes when you know you've been in the wrong and have no idea how to make it right again, because you weren't aware of having done anything wrong in the first place.