conscience

He shrugged, "...my conscience rests easiest if I do only what I see as best in the moment...

Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain.

Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience.

For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth." -

We become equally responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong but remain silent because we think it is right.

What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It__ having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.

To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense.

Inquisitor Lorsen's thin lip curled. "There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft of conscience. An utter absence of morality. You have no principle beyond the selfish."Cosca's face hardened as he leaned forwards. "Perhaps when you have faced as many disappointments and suffered as many betrayals as I, you will see it - there is no principle beyond the selfish, Inquisitor, and men are animals. Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier. There have been many times in my life when I have wished it was not so. But it is so.

Conscience, Christ, and the gift of faith make evil men uneasy in their sin. They feel that if they could drive Christ from the earth, they would be free from "moral inhibitions." They forget that it is their own nature and conscience which makes them feel that way. Being unable to drive God from the heavens, they would drive his ambassadors from the earth. In a lesser sphere, that is why many men sneer at virtue--because it makes vice uncomfortable.

Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one's conscience in the silence of the passions? There you have true philosophy. Let us learn to be satisfied with that, and without envying the glory of those famous men who are immortalized in the republic of letters, let us try to set between them and us that glorious distinction which people made long ago between two great peoples: one knew how to speak well; the other how to act well.

The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't.

This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to be good to yourself and others? Do you care about other people, always, sometimes, never? Or only when convenient? What kind of person do you want to be?

What we now call "morality" was evolved _ as nearly all social and physical human attributes were _ to aid us in survival and, ultimately, reproduction. This morality requires only that we be guided by our developed conscience (or "moral sense") _ and not a God or gods.

Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren__ is because you have a conscience.

Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of how I appeared to others, but of how I appeared to myself, especially in violating self-imposed prohibitions.

Your conscience is your morality, expressed.