Conscience Quote by Leo Tolstoy

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether…

— Roger Williams

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has…

— Simone Weil

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;

— William Shakespeare

“It is not enough for you to think that no man could commit such heinous acts and be deemed to be of sound mind.…

— Graeme Macrae Burnet

“Bonhoeffer examined and dismissed a number of approaches to dealing with evil. "Reasonable people," he said, think that "with a little reason, they can…

— Eric Metaxas

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all…

— Richard Steele

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

— Henry Taylor

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

— C. S. Lewis

“I would sooner have the approval of my own conscience and know that I had done my duty than to have the praise of…

— Heber J. Grant

Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws…

— Thucydides

If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

— Andrew Johnson

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

— Jeremy Taylor