Sense of Right and Wrong Quotes

One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience.

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin.

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

I value people with a conscience. It's like a beeper from God.

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

Conscience is the pulse of reason

Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.

Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

A conscience is like a boat or a car. If you feel you need one, rent it.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.

Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make him understand that confessing an error which he discovers in his own argument even when he alone has noticed it is an act of justice and integrity, which are the main qualities he pursues; stubbornness and rancour are vulgar qualities, visible in common souls whereas to think again, to change one's mind and to give up a bad case on the heat of the argument are rare qualities showing strength and wisdom.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

I have a very clear conscience.

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

Conscience, the organ of feeling which dominates us and of the opinions which rule us, is presumptuous in the strong, timid in the weak and unfortunate, uneasy in the undecided.

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.