No one should be forced to violate one's conscience, nor should anyone be forced out of service of the common good because there are some things their conscience tells them they cannot do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.
Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.
The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.
No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.