Quotes about Conscience

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

It is not possible to produce a set of rules purporting to describe what a man should do in every conceivable set of circumstances.

Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.

Always do what's right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest

Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis. ~ Albert Einstein

May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

Habit is as fatal to a sense of wrongdoing as to active enjoyment.

But, then, you were born a pagan; I am trying laboriously to make myself one. I can take nothing for granted, I can enjoy nothing as it comes along. Beauty, pleasure, art, women - I have to invent an excuse, a justification for everything that's delightful. Otherwise I can't enjoy it with an easy conscience.

He would have liked to behave well, but he did not know how to stop behaving badly.

To pay no attention to health of body but only that of soul. To plan day on arising and evening examination of conscience. More spiritual reading...To waste no time. More conscientious about letters, visits, about these records. More charity.