Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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

You just have to do what you know is right.

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

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.

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.

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

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

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

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

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? Great souls do not worry themselves with such little details

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.

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

Moral liberty is the power of following, in all circumstances, our sense of right and wrong, or of acting in conformity to our reflecting and moral principles, without being controlled by any contrary principles.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

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