Quotes about Conscience

Selfcontrol is the skill of saying "no" to sinful desires, even when it hurts.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Dare to face the situation...Man has become a superman... But the superman with the superhuman power has not risen to the level of superhuman reason. To the degree which his power grows he becomes more and more a poor man... It must shake up our conscience that we become all the more inhuman the more we grow into superhuman.

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

Besides other impediments, it may be remarked that, where there is a consciousness of unjust or dishonorable purposes, communication is always checked by distrust in proportion to the number whose concurrence is necessary

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!