Quotes About Conscience

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.

Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.

All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

I think I am a moral man.

Man is a moral being.

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously - and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.

Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

That which impels man to do the right thing is God.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

Few men are wantonly wicked.

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!

No man is a man without high morals and ethics.