Maurice Hearne Byers Quotes

Conscience is the most sacred of all property.

The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.

I have only ever followed my conscience.

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

I do what I think is right.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'

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

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

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

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

Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.

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

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

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

Upon common theaters … the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actors than their own approbation. But upon the stage of life, while conscience claps, let the world hiss! …. If conscience disapproves, the loudest applause of the world are of little value.

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

All politics is an extension of ethics ... We cannot leave out conscience at the caucus room door.

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

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

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong. That's how I live my life.

Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him; yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.

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.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.