Quotes about Conscience

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

A lowly knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than the deep searching of a man's learnings. Not that learning is to be blamed, nor the taking account of anything that is good; but a good conscience and a holy life is better than all. And because many seek knowledge rather than good living, therefore they go astray, and bear little or no fruit.

5. Be ofttimes mindful of the saying,(3) The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing. Strive, therefore, to turn away thy heart from the love of the things that are seen, and to set it upon the things that are not seen. For they who follow after their own fleshly lusts, defile the conscience, and destroy the grace of God.

But why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done to our conscience?