Benjamin Whichcote Quotes

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

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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

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.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

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

Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

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.

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

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

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

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

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.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking.

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 a moral conscience that is real central.