Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
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.
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.
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.
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.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.