Conscience Quote by Michel de Montaigne

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

— Michel de Montaigne

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

— Michel de Montaigne

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

— Samuel Daniel

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

— Hillary Clinton

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

— Publilius Syrus

“Our consciences are not all of the same pattern, an inner deliverance of fixed laws: they are the voice of sensibilities as various as…

— George Eliot

“A conscience is a self-reproaching program that is installed in us, not by nature, but by our culture.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.

— George Eliot

The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.

— Frances G. Wickes

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

— Winston Churchill

Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and…

— James Madison

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

— Francis Bacon