Quotes on Moral Conscience

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true; the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow.

...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.