Ethics Quote by Thomas Hobbes

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

— Thomas Hobbes

“Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin; and it dependeth on the presumption of…

— Thomas Hobbes

“No one who ever follows their conscience ever does wrong. The consequences may not turn out as we intended; it may prove that we…

— Robert Harris

“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

“Conscience is the eye that watches an honest man, and the guide that keeps his actions even in secret. Hence, other men's views takes…

— Haruna Idowu

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.

— Hannah Arendt

“This is what is meant by conscience: it is not a mysterious, extra-rational faculty, but the best and final judgment of our reason concerning…

— Timothy Shah

Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on the presumption…

— Thomas Hobbes

Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions…

— Jonathan Swift

“Conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“By his conscience man realises his relationship to God, and n evil conscience tells him that all is not right between God and himself…

— Andrew Murray