Victoria Jackson Quotes

Don't ever silence your morality to be a part of anything.

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

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

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

I have to do what's right.

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

You must always do what you feel is right.

I do what I think is 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.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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

There’s nothing more important than people’s conscience and there’s nothing that needs more protection.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

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.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.

I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that.

I have only ever followed my conscience.

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

There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.