Lorraine Toussaint Quotes

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

Conscience: something that feels terrible when everything else feels well.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

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.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

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

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

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.

I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.

At the end of the day, you have to do what you think is right and be human.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

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

Although you feel relief now, this is likely to be the source of many sleepless nights for you. You will lie awake, look upon your heart, and find it unlovely. You will be certain that (...) you are the greatest of monsters. This is a good thing; although you may forgive yourself, you must never come to think that your actions were in any way justifiable. But- (...) Being a sane, honorable human being is not always comfortable.

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