Judith Durham Quotes

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.

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

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

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

All a man can betray is his conscience.

... sufficient conscience to bother him, but not sufficient to keep him straight.

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

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

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.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

There’s a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.

Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

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

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

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