Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

The conscience is the best and most impartial judge that a righteous man has.

If the Soviet Government orders me to act against my conscience, I do not obey …. Conscience is above the law. No law which is against the conscience can bind.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Fear is the mother of morality.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience correctly.

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.