conscience Quotes

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, 'Why did you do that?' This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.