Quotes about Conscience
we handed him back his province and left our allies to be crucified and sawn in two. They were innocent. They thought we'd stay. But we were liberals and we didn't want a bad conscience.
— Graham Greene
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless.
— Graham Greene
Human nature too has curious twisted reasons that the heart certainly knows nothing of. It eased the conscience of many small men to feel that they were working for
— Graham Greene
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
— Greg Laurie
Sometimes, to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.
— Robert Brault
never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
— LM Montgomery
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.
— Thomas Jefferson
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.
— Ronald Reagan
One should always do the good, even though it is not done for its own sake.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
But for this book we could not know right from wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad
— Abraham Lincoln