Quotes about Conscience
Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.
- CS Lewis
If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.
- CS Lewis
All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.
- David O. McKay
The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.
- DL Moody
Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously - and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.
- George W. Bush
That which impels man to do the right thing is God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Few men are wantonly wicked.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.
- Harry S. Truman
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
- Henry David Thoreau