Philip Massinger Quotes

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

He [William Gladstone] made his conscience not his guide but his accomplice.

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.

I have only ever followed my conscience.

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

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

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.

I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.

You can't be right by doing wrong; you can't be wrong by doing right.

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way.

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

It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'