#conscience

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#conscience

You and I are victims of the same disease. We're fighting the same war, just different battles in different theatres,and it's way too late for me to hate you for anything, because we're the same damn thing. My soul, your conscience,whatever's left of me woven into whatever's left of you, all tangled up and conjoined. We're in this together,corpse. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#corpses #hate #partnership #zombies #conscience

Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#cruelty #love #loved #sexes #unrequited

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#definitions #ethics #humor #humor

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- they only. Know this at last. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#conscience #courtship #dignity #empowerment #feminism

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#characters #conscience #cut #failing #fighting

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again. ↗

— Pam Brown

#better #cat #conscience #down #get

There's so few people in this town with a conscience. ↗

— Blake Edwards

#few #few people #people #town

As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience. ↗

— Wilhelm Frick

#as far as #charge #clear #clear conscience #concerned

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#breeding #conscience #control #long #long run