Quotes about Conscience
If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.
- Henry Parry Liddon
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.
- Herbert Hoover
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.
- Herman Melville
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.
- James Madison
The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
- John Milton
Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.
- Robert Brault
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
- Mother Teresa
It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.
- Martin Luther
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
- Tertullian
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
- Marquis de Sade
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
- Aristotle