Quotes about Conscience
The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.
- James Madison
Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.
- Ayn Rand
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
- John Henry Newman
[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.
- Thomas Jefferson
There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.
- DL Moody
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom comes from moral self-control. There is no other way to achieve it.
- Dennis Prager
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
- Francois Rabelais
Knowing what is right is not the same as doing what is right.
- Christine Caine
You must do right before you feel good.
- John Maxwell
Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
- Lao Tzu