Quotes About Conscience

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

Quando faccio bene mi sento bene. Quando faccio male mi sento male. Questa è la mia religione.

Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

the vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience." And

Sir Archibald Bodkin (best known to history as the man who later would get James Joyce's novel Ulysses banned from publication in postwar England), thundered accusingly that "war will become impossible if all men were to have the view that war is wrong.

Stealing is good, honest work, Said the theif, puffing out his chest. Well, not honest, strictly speaking, he admitted after a moment. Or actually good.

a man within the breast...

Virtue is more to be feared than vice because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

Bastions of wealth are no deference for the man who treads the grand altar of Justice down and out of sight.

A clean conscience is the preserve of those without sufficient imagination.

Si la condena ni siquiera ha pasado por tu conciencia, el perdón no tiene sentido y es innecesario.

You always think you can make it up to somebody—later, you know.' She took a deep breath. 'But now I never can. I never can.

I am not frightened of my beliefs. If there is a God who is threatening me with damnation because I don't believe in Him, so be it. I've lived my life in conscience, and I will suffer damnation willingly in conscience against a tyrannical God who would damn me because, on the basis of the intelligence He gave me, I have come to a conclusion doubting His existence, and I will continue to be a skeptic all of my life.

They had refused payment, their spying was an act of conscience. Sincere Christians, German Lutherans, they had watched with horror as the Nazis violated every precept sacred to them. .... They didn't care to be paid. They had prayed together for hours, they explained, down on their knees, trying to make this decision, but now it was made. The people who led Germany were evil, and they were obliged, by their faith, to act against them.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

Does he repent him or is there only room for his fear?

The fierce old man struck the arm of his chair and said, I would shoot him like a dog. Then because no one spoke, he said to the captain, wouldn't you? And the captain said, No. —You wouldn't? —No. —But he has offended against the race. Then the captain said trembling, Meneer, as a policeman I know an offence against the law, and as a Christian I know an offence against God; but I do not know an offence against the race.

Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.

Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you

You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.

It is easy to decide between right and wrong but it is difficult to decide between what is right and what is more right

My father said, 'Politics asks the question Is it expedient Vanity asks Is it popular But conscience asks Is it right'