Quotes About Conscience

A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.

No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.