Quotes about Conscience
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
— Mother Teresa
Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience...to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness.
— Pope Francis
It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.
— Martin Luther
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
— Tertullian
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
— Marquis de Sade
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
— Aristotle
Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.
— Stephen Covey
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
— Edmund Burke
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
— Thomas Merton
Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.
— David O. McKay
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.