Quotes About Conscience

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

I couldn't kill a fly.

You follow what you think is right. There are lines that I won't cross.

I have only ever followed my conscience.

I don't think I will ever be able to forgive myself for what I have done.

I'm always fascinated by people when they reach that fork in the road, where they can make a moral choice.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

Science sans conscience n'est que ruine de l'âme.

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.

Isolated in the attic, Anne could only examine her own history and her own conscience, and try to locate the wellspring of her sadness and her rage.

But love is strange, as they used to say at the Chameleon Club. Even those of us who value intelligence over appearance have discovered, to our chagrin, that a high IQ doesn't necessarily translate into kindness or even conscience.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. C. S. LEWIS

So why should he even bother himself with this? The answer came to his mind: Because what happened to Annie Brewer was evil and evil prevails when good men do nothing.

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny, Paul said. They're organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

Moral decisions are always easy to recognize," Odrade said. "They are where you abandon self-interest.

Reason arises from pride that a man may not know in this way when he has done evil.

Fremen possessed a highly evolved conscience which centered on their own welfare as a people. It was only to outsiders that they seemed brutish—just as outsiders appeared brutish to Fremen. Every Fremen knew very well that he could do a brutal thing and feel no guilt.

I salve my own conscience. I give him the surcease of religion before betraying him. Thus may I say to myself that he has gone where I cannot go.

Si siempre me comporto como es debido sin tener en cuenta lo que me cueste suprimir mis propios deseos, eso es lo único que quedará de mí.

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They're organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations. I, however, have limitations. In my desire to provide an ultimate protection for my people, I forbid a constitution.

Cuántas veces el hombre encolerizado niega con rabia lo que le dicta su conciencia!

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.