Quotes about Conscience
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
— Joseph Addison
I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.
— Desmond Tutu
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
— Edmund Burke
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin
— Charles Hodge
Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.
— Greg Koukl
Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.
— CS Lewis
If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.
— CS Lewis
All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.
— David O. McKay
The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.
— DL Moody
Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously - and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.
— George W. Bush
That which impels man to do the right thing is God.
— Mahatma Gandhi