Henry David Thoreau Quotes

You can have a value system and be unable to totally live it.

Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

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

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

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

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

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'm not a moral relativist, I do think at the end of the day there's right and wrong, there's good intentions, and then there's bad paths that you can go on even if you have good intentions and we believe that.

I do not permit affection or lack thereof to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected, the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil as a caution.

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.

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

the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world.

I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.

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

What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.