Conscience Quote by Michel de Montaigne

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Frances G. Wickes

“Conscience is the quantity of innate science which we have within us.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Francis Bacon

“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

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

— Winston Churchill

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere…

— Thomas Jefferson

Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Hillary Clinton

“Conscience is the endowment that senses our congruence or disparity with correct principles and lifts us toward them—when it’s in shape.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

— Publilius Syrus