Conscience Quote by Albert Camus

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded…

— Woodrow Wilson

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

— Stokely Carmichael

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

— Paul Valery

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

— Publilius Syrus

Policy sits above conscience.

— William Shakespeare

If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world.

— Raphael Lemkin

The conscience of a people is their power.

— John Dryden

We are a country with a conscience.

— John McCain

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

— Charles Kuralt

The law is the public conscience.

— Thomas Hobbes

“... a good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself, which the neglect of legislators…

— Henry Fielding

Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to…

— George Washington