Abstract Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere…

— Plato

“systems. They are self-evident and can easily be validated by any individual. It’s almost as if these principles or natural laws are part of…

— Stephen R. Covey

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

— Michel de Montaigne

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find…

— Albert Claude

“Because everybody has a conscience, whether or not we can be great beings is not determined merely by its presence in us . Instead,…

— Ilchi Lee

“When conscience is immobilised, public trust has disappeared. At that point, by default, institutions become omnipotent.”

— Raymond Dirks

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of…

— George Saunders

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 serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“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

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

— Michel de Montaigne

“In nature everything is connected, interwoven, subject to natural law. We cannot separate ourselves from that, no matter how hard we try.”

— Jeffrey R. Anderson