Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things.
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
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.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.