Quotes About Conscience

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.

I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal.

I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

Do the right thing because it is right.

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition of immense worth.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

Were there no heaven nor hell I should be honest.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

The entire perks that I need are to let me do my job with full honesty to my conscience.

He was a man more concerned with the truth than his arrest quota, a philosophy that would often have him skate on thin ice with the higher ups.

Live with honor and follow your conscience.

Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

Honor is a harder master than the law.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.