What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam Smith

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Michel de Montaigne

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
Michel de Montaigne

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
Jack Kevorkian

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.
Davy Crockett

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Benjamin Disraeli

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Bertrand Russell

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
George Eliot

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

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
Aleister Crowley

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
Joseph Conrad

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Dante Alighieri

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
Robert Peel

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
John Milton

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

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
Michel Foucault

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
Walter Bagehot

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
Charlotte Bronte

We were a country band with a social conscience.
Kinky Friedman