Quotes about Conscience
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
— Albert Schweitzer
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.
— Thomas Jefferson
Conscience is a man's compass.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
— Dante Alighieri
The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
— Frederick Douglass
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
— Samuel Johnson
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
— Samuel Johnson
Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.
— Aristotle
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
— Edmund Burke
For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.
— Martin Niemoller
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
— Lyndon B. Johnson