Jodi Picoult Quotes

Politics is challenging for everyone's integrity... I have to wake up with myself every morning, and I have to be OK with the person I wake up with. If I string together too many days of waking up with a person I'm not happy to be, I have a lot bigger things at stake in my life than an election or a job.

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

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.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

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!

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I'll be all right.

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Senator H. Alexander Smith of New Jersey spent the day wrestling with his conscience. He won.

The issue is not whether or not we can stand with the President. It is whether, at the end of the day, we can stand with ourselves.

I did not wish to bribe myself.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

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

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

I wanted to write a book about people who have the best intentions and think - really, truly think - that they're doing the right thing. And then they realize that when those ideals come knocking at their windowsill, a lot of times they will suddenly disavow those ideals.

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

I know I must be true to myself.

You have to live with your decisions every day. Why live with one you're uneasy with? 'Because it'll make you money' is a common reply. But I don't think that's good enough.

There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart.

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?