Conscience Quote by Roger L'Estrange

“Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid mind the guises can…

— F. Sionil José

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it…

— Francis of Assisi

More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience correctly.

— Antonin Scalia

Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

— Immanuel Kant

Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.

— Henry Edward Manning

The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.

— George Washington

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

— Benjamin Constant

“...[T]he sublimity and intrinsic dignity of the command in duty are so much the more evident, the less the subjective impulses favor it and…

— Immanuel Kant

The highest duty is to respect authority

— Anonymous

No one should be forced to violate one's conscience, nor should anyone be forced out of service of the common good because there are…

— Donald Wuerl

Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero