Aaron Burr Quotes

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

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

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

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.

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

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

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.

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

Conscience: something that feels terrible when everything else feels well.

I have learned that a clear conscience, or a legal opinion, does not make you ethically bullet proof.

Unless the character is suffering from tremendous self doubt or pangs of conscience, you have to get morally behind the character and their values.

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

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

Obviously everybody is accountable for their own actions, and everybody has to make judgments based on their own conscience as to whether or not they believe what they were doing is right or wrong.

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

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

I think evil is very relative.

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