Carson Daly Quotes

Look, I do spray flies, but I have a really big conscience.

I was raised with a sense of duty, obedience and guilt.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

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?

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

Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

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

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

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

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

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

The law often allows what honor forbids.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

I come from a highly moral family. I was very much taught what was right and wrong, and in my perception of things, I did something that was very wrong. To know that, and to then be so publicly exposed, was very hard.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

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.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

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.

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