His Conscience Quotes

63 quotes by 51 authors

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that… — Thomas Aquinas
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. — B. C. Forbes
In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today is ever more… — Pope John Paul II
He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And… — John Greenleaf Whittier
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his… — Leon Bourgeois
You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all… — Joseph Conrad
It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent… — Mark Twain
And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of mans deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news-- that we… — John F. Kennedy
Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket. — Ambrose Bierce
The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who… — Jean Baudrillard
Man in his raw, natural state as he comes from the womb is morally and spiritually corrupt in disposition and character. Every part of his… — Robert L. Reymond
It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the… — Woodrow Wilson
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are… — Mark Twain
Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that… — Wilkie Collins
A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one… — Erving Goffman
We may gamble on outsmarting the law; we may even gamble on the leniency of man and the mercy of God-but no man ever won… — Sidney Greenberg
When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at. — Dominic Lawson
What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The value of a… — John Cowper Powys

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