- 11 Feb 2013 20:30
#14170384
A selection which I like that are on 'conscience'.
- "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."
"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."
"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place."
"Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it."
"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
"A good conscience is eight parts of courage."
"Betrayal is common for men with no conscience."
"You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility."
"On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'... The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge, moments of great crisis and controversy."
"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward."
"Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell."
"A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory."
"Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends."
"Conscience doesn't always keep you from doing wrong, but it does keep you from enjoying it."
"We fight for and against not men and things as they are, but for and against the caricatures we make of them."
"What are these crazy questions that they're asking of me?"
"What are these crazy questions that they're asking of me?"