Irving Layton Quotes

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Conscience is the highest of all Courts.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property.

If the Soviet Government orders me to act against my conscience, I do not obey …. Conscience is above the law. No law which is against the conscience can bind.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous.

The conscience is the best and most impartial judge that a righteous man has.

Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin.

Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.