Quotes about Conscience
No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Few men are wantonly wicked.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.
— Harry S. Truman
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
— Henry David Thoreau
If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.
— Henry Parry Liddon
No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.
— Herbert Hoover
I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.
— Herman Melville
Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any Manner contrary to their conscience.
— James Madison
The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
— John Milton
Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.
— Robert Brault