#conscience

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation. ↗

— Peter Akinola

#conscience #faith #money #mortgage #our

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#administered #alleged #apprehend #between #cases

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#breeding #conscience #control #long #long run

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on. ↗

— Budd Schulberg

#conscience #driving #like #living

Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one's conscience in the silence of the passions? There you have true philosophy. Let us learn to be satisfied with that, and without envying the glory of those famous men who are immortalized in the republic of letters, let us try to set between them and us that glorious distinction which people made long ago between two great peoples: one knew how to speak well; the other how to act well. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#athens #conscience #ethics #immortality #morality

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#freedom

The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason which the employment of coercion necessarily destroys. The liberal has faith in the individual – faith that he can be persuaded by rational means to beliefs compatible with social good. ↗

— Harold Edmund Stearns

#compulsion #conscience #faith #individual #liberal

True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time? ↗

— Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#justice #law #right-and-wrong #men

I would sooner have the approval of my own conscience and know that I had done my duty than to have the praise of all the world and not have the approval of my own conscience. A man's own conscience, when he is living as he should live, is the finest monitor and the best judge in all the world. Men can accuse you of wrong-doing, and it has no effect at all if you know they lie and you have done that which is right ↗

— Heber J. Grant

#men

If I have to die either for religion or atheism I would prefer atheism, since my conscience will respect my rational decision. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#conscience #rational #religion