#conscience

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#monogamy #morality #conscience

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#conscience #guilt #stefan-zweig #conscience

It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience. ↗

— Martin Luther

#conscience

It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us the good service of telling us the truth about ourselves. When we don't, we can so easily delude ourselves, lose a sense of truth about ourselves, and our conscience loses power and purpose. Mostly, we tell ourselves what we would like to hear. We lose our way. ↗

— Jon Katz

#truth #conscience

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#cowardice #conscience

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#conscience

Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience? V: I beg your pardon? ↗

— J.R. Ward

#vishous #conscience

I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#evvy #people #rosethorn #conscience

The perfect killer has no conscience. ↗

— Brent Weeks

#conscience

Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#wrongdoing #conscience