Quotes about Conscience
If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.
— Francis Schaeffer
We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.
— Albert Schweitzer
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.
— Ronald Reagan
Happiness is a moral obligation.
— Dennis Prager
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'
— Desmond Tutu
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
— CS Lewis
There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.
— Frank Herbert
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.
— JC Ryle