Quotes about Conscience

I don't think it matters if there is a god or not. I've met people who believe in God that are good and that are bad. And I've met people who don't believe in God that are good and that are bad. So, just be good. I'm good. Not cos I think I'll go to heaven but because when I do something bad, I feel bad. And when I do something good, I feel good.

Sometimes, to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.

never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

One should always do the good, even though it is not done for its own sake.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad

Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

Someone put her out of her misery if she ever became impervious to taking a life, when squeezing the trigger stopped being a regret.

The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking upon himself superhuman authority, which will eventually crush him.