Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.

I'm my own judge, and I hope my track record speaks to that.

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

I don't care what other people's judgments come down to-I care what my judgments come down to.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.

You just have to do what you know is right.

Go by your own conscience.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.

Each person is his own judge.

Moral liberty is the power of following, in all circumstances, our sense of right and wrong, or of acting in conformity to our reflecting and moral principles, without being controlled by any contrary principles.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

I have to feel myself doing what's right. If I'm the arbiter of that instead of letting the guy on TV be that or someone who doesn't know me at all, then I think that's a much better way to live.

At the end of the day, you have to do what you think is right and be human.

And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

Any writing which has influenced the thinking and the lives of innumerable people is important. Now, there are many millions in their sects and churches who feel the order, ‘Do thou,’ and throw their weight into obedience. And there are millions more who feel predestination in ‘Thou shalt.’ Nothing they may do can interfere with what will be. But ‘Thou mayest’! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother, he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win.

Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it.