Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

The only guide to man is his conscience.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

I do my research, and if I'm supporting something, then it's because it aligns with me morally and ethically.

I never listen to what people tell me and I can't read. The only way I know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it's wrong. If I feel good, it's right.

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

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.

My rule for the corporate stuff is the same as with my music - I do whatever means I can sleep at night and whatever means I can be dignified.

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

My conscience won't allow me to do films I thought were bad but were going to make money.

My moral compass is strong.

My heart tells me what's right.

I was taught growing up that you always do what you believe.

A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.

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.

It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you That it's your heart and nobody else's That is gonna judge.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

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

Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.

I've always tried to vote my conscience.

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.