Conscience Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“I think that we should be men first and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much…

— Henry David Thoreau

“... 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

“Man has the right to act in conscience and in freedom so as personally to make moral decisions.  "He must not be forced to…

— Aaron Milavec

“The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience?”

— Diana Gabaldon

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

— Michel de Montaigne

It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to…

— Frederic Bastiat

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

— Publilius Syrus

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