Quotes About Conscience

Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

Guilt is the thief of life.

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

Don't run your life by what's legal or illegal. Run your life based on what's right or wrong.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Of two evils, choose neither.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

That night, I didn't sleep at all. I stayed up, thinking about what to do. What was the right thing to do? Because I knew I loved you. But I knew I shouldn't. I didn't have the right to love anybody then.

You'll soon find that doing the right thing is rarely the easy choice. But I promise you'll sleep better at night because of it.

In Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone he goes so far as to claim that conscientious moral judgement cannot err. The voice of conscience, which is our internal moral judge, can serve as a 'guiding thread' (Leitfaden) in matters of doubt.

Suppose for example, that he lacks outward comforts, good cheer and feasting, a good conscience in a continual feast; so he can make up the lack of a feast by the peace that he has in his own conscience. If he lacks melody in the world, he has a bird within him that sings the most melodious songs in the world, and the most delightful. And then does he lack honor? He has his own conscience witnessing for him, that is as a thousand witnesses.

Submit not to any decree or other act of power, of the justice of which you are not yourself perfectly convinced. If a constable call upon you to serve in the militia, shoot the constable and not the enemy. If the commander of a press-gang trouble you, push him into the sea. If a bailiff, throw him out of the window. If a judge sentence you to be imprisoned or put to death, have a dagger ready, and take a stroke first at the judge.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only being uncomfortable. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Man and Superman