Conscience Conflict Quotes

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Once you “volunteer” and engage in self-censorship something happens to your conscience.

But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind the moral. ... We can see quite well that our opinions of what is noble and good, our moral valuations, are powerful levers where action is concerned; but we must begin by refining these opinions and independently creating for ourselves new tables of values.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

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

To the Muslims in America…: How can your conscience allow you to live in peaceful coexistence with a nation that is responsible for the tyranny and crimes committed against your own brothers and sisters? I eventually came to the conclusion that jihad [holy war] against America is binding upon myself just as it is binding upon every other able Muslim.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

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

A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.

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

Many parents who are religious and firm in their conscience, refuse to send their sons to learn law and…enter the profession.

The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.

Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

As I heard out people who had done others wrong, I'd often wonder how a human allows his or her better judgement to override their conscience. When I share these feelings with my friends, they say, 'Everyone isn't like you.' But I think it's easy to assert your better feelings and not allow the darker side to dominate your personality.

Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.

Unless the character is suffering from tremendous self doubt or pangs of conscience, you have to get morally behind the character and their values.

Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.

When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us.