Conscience Quotes

"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts."

"The law is the public conscience."

Thomas Hobbes

"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."

"Rights are protected not by law but by the social and moral conscience of society."

B. R. Ambedkar

"Human rights are what reason requires and conscience demands."

Kofi Annan

"It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right."

"Good men must not obey the laws too well."

"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking."

H. L. Mencken

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.”

“O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!”

“Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.”

Voltaire

“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe.”

“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.”

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”

John Milton

“Here I stand; I can do no other.”

Martin Luther

"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."

Voltaire

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."

"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”

“Any man more right than his neighbours constitutes a majority of one already.”

“In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.”

“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”

H. L. Mencken

“A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.”

Steven Wright