Peter Tosh Quotes

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

Don't throw away your conscience.

My conscience is clear.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

I have a very clear conscience.

I shouldn't steal in this world.

As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding, and at the same time try to resist corruption and deception. In other words, I must do my utmost to act in harmony with my conscience and my better self.

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.

What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

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 just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.

I was not really as good as I should have been.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.