Quotes About Conscience

I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

But I won't keep a count of people I have killed as though it were a trophy record or a disgusting business like notches in a gun, he told himself. I have a right to not keep count and I have a right to forget them. No, himself said. You have no right to forget anything. You have no right to shut your eyes to any of it nor any right to forget any of it nor to soften it nor to change it.

That was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward. No, that must be immorality.

understanding of it and I am not sure that I believe in it. Perhaps it was a sin to kill the fish. I suppose it was even though I did it to keep me alive and feed many people. But then everything is a sin. Do not think about sin. It is much too

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

But you mustn't believe in killing, he told himself. You must do it as a necessity but you must not believe in it. If you believe in it the whole thing is wrong.

I'm minding my own business, sir! How many people do you think actually do that by choice? Does it bother you? Of course it bothers you. A clear conscience is always supposed to bother a cripple-minded idiot like you

on je volio razmišljati o svemu što proživljava a kako nije imao što ?itati niti je imalo radio, mnogo je razmišljao i nastavio je razmišljati i o grijehu. Nisi ti ubio ribu samo da preživiš i da je prodaš na tržnici, pomisli. Ubio si je iz ponosa i zato što si ribar. Volio si je dok je bila živa, i volio si je i poslije toga. Ako je voliš, nije grijeh ubiti je. Ili je možda zato još ve?i grijeh?

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Yes. It's sort of what we have instead of God. Some people have God, I said. Quite a lot. He never worked very well with me.

We must live with our own conscience. Each and every one of us must live with his own conscience.

Whether I would survive a defeat lies in God's hands. The lot of the vanquished is heavy. I'm happy in my own conscience that I've done all I can for victory and have not spared myself.

Si se vive de acuerdo con la conciencia, la fe no es tan importante.»

There may come a time when even the most peaceful man alive has to fight or else something truly evil will happen

And the truth is, there may come a time when even the most peaceful man alive has to fight or else something truly evil will happen.

In order to follow your heart, one must do the wrong thing

The real danger is that the good guys will blindly keep doing bad things that they don't see as bad.

I'm not gonna let them go easy on me knowing he's out there hurting some other kid. How can a decent person live with that?" Indeed. Even a guy like Artice, who's caused his share of mayhem, sees that.

While legal lines sharply define what can and cannot be done, our personal sense of right and wrong doesn't necessarily hew so closely to them.

Back then, just like now, whenever people look the other way when evil is around them, the wicked will find it.

I was going to say I don't like to cheat anyone. I almost said it wasn't in my DNA, but I hesitated. It suddenly occurred to me that one major transgression affects every small indiscretion you might contemplate and makes it seem less important and too little to challenge your conscience. It's not a license to steal exactly, but everything, no matter how contradictory to who and what you were before, suddenly becomes insignificant.

It's as if you've already crossed over; the devil has won your soul. Additional stains don't matter. And yet this wasn't true for me. The idea of fudging my time and squeezing out more money for the work I had done hadn't even occurred to me. Did that mean I had successfully rationalized my adultery, that somehow what I was doing was not immoral and therefore I still had a lily-white soul to protect?

Men can be unjust towards me, my dear Junot,' he wrote to his faithful aide-de-camp, 'but it suffices to be innocent; my conscience is the tribunal before which I call my conduct.

And never farting pointed to guilt in the courthouse of my mind.

They are not demons, not devils... Worse than that. They are people.