Quotes About Conscience

Y, en vuestro propio caso, recordad bien y meditad sobre esta sencilla distinción (no hacerla como es debido ha sido la perdición de miles):—que vuestra conciencia no es ley.—

Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

Sadness is a state of sin.

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Guilt ripped into her like a rusty, serrated knife. It took up residence in her soul, settling in and getting comfortable so it could saw away ragged pieces of flesh and leave her to bleed.

I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement ... anywhere ... ever.

Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Quando (como notavelmente formulado por Erich Fromm) "cada indivíduo deve ir em frente e tentar sua sorte", quando "ele tem que nadar ou afundar" — "a busca compulsiva da certeza" se instala, começa a desesperada busca por "soluções" capazes de "eliminar a consciência da dúvida" — o que quer que prometa "assumir a responsabilidade pela 'certeza'" é bem-vindo.5

Being a good person is more than just not being a bad person.

See, when something's the right thing to do, you don't do it for a reward.

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

one should always do the good, even though it is not done for its own sake.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.