Lyman Abbott Quotes

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

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 serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

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

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

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

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

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

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

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous.

Conscience is the highest of all Courts.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property.

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.

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

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.

I have only ever followed my conscience.

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.