Fidel Castro Quotes

An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason

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

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

A human being is a deciding being.

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

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to distortion of consciousness and conscience, and hence our actions.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.