“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all…”

Hamlet says this as he watches the King pray and thinks about killing him right then.

When Hamlet says this I think he means that our conscience sometimes stops us from doing things that we may think are necessary. Hamlet thinks he needs to kill the King to get justice for his father, but his conscience doesn’t want to let him. I think this applies to us today because sometimes we may be just about to do something when our conscience comes and makes us feel differently. I think usually our conscience is a good thing though because it stops us from doing what we normally would have just gone ahead and done.