Authority Quote by Stanley Milgram

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life

— Norman Cousins

It is quite certain that, if from childhood men were to begin to follow the first intimations of conscience, honestly to obey them and…

— John Campbell Shairp

The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.

— Ralph Nader

The people are led to find in the productive apparatus the effective agent of thought and action to which their personal thought and action…

— Herbert Marcuse

If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

— Elbert Hubbard

[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and,…

— Paulo Freire

A mind willing to take responsibility for his or her own actions, is supported by a personality of great change.

— Joseph Mercado

“Conscience doth make cowards of us all,” but conscience is what gives us our humanity, the factor that separates us from animals. It allows…

— Ann Rule

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love…

— Simone Weil

“Good, capable individuals unconsciously and consciously guard and nurture themselves and their spirits every day in all sorts of choices, large and small. Just…

— Donald Van de Mark

The conscience of a people is their power.

— John Dryden