Conscience Quote by Lev Shestov

To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in…

— Jerry Fodor

In the heart of every lawyer, worthy of the name, there burns a deep ambition so to bear himself that the profession may be…

— John W. Davis

Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives,…

— George Santayana

“Anyone shall take law in their hands, but not a judge and I call it as professional ethics.”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“The philosopher has to be the bad conscience of his age.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those…

— Stefan Molyneux

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery

— Bertrand Russell

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come…

— Thane Rosenbaum

A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.

— Tom Clancy

To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.

— Kane Morgan