Quotes About Conscience

What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality.

When a man calls himself an atheist, he is not attacking God; he is attacking his own conscience.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war.

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest

Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.

But if there be an hereafter,And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'dAnd suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,Then must it be an awful thing to die;More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.

No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.

I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any Manner contrary to their conscience.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.