Conscience Quote by Harold H. Greene

Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.

— Benvenuto Cellini

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

— Publilius Syrus

The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.

— Lysander Spooner

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

— Henry David Thoreau

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

— Rocco Buttiglione

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

— Ambrose Bierce

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original…

— Edmund Burke

Law and justice are not always the same.

— Gloria Steinem

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another…

— Samuel Johnson

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.

— Hannah Arendt