There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.
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