Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Conscience? Great souls do not worry themselves with such little details

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

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

Conscience is the highest of all Courts.

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.

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

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

Oh but I'd pay anything to keep my conscience clean.I'm keeping my eyes on the the exit sign. Steady now.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's 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 do what I think is right.

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

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

Go by your own conscience.

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

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.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous.