Bob Dylan Quotes

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

He [William Gladstone] made his conscience not his guide but his accomplice.

In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

I do what I think is right.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

My conscience is clear.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

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

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

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

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.