C. S. Lewis Quotes

Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case, end of report. Your birth certificate is proof of guilt.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'

There is no right in acting.

An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Our president and secretary of state speak with great moral clarity but have no moral authority.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion holds its members to the high standards of moral responsibility that the secular world of science and medicine does!

No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

President Trump's critics call him an immoral lout. By strict moral standards, so are we all.

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.

I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Conscience is a Jewish invention.