Chen Guangcheng Quotes

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

I do what I think is right.

You just have to do what you know is right.

You must always do what you feel is right.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

I have only ever followed my conscience.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Conscience? Great souls do not worry themselves with such little details

I have learned that a clear conscience, or a legal opinion, does not make you ethically bullet proof.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

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.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But Conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.

My job is to do what's right. And that's what I'm going to try and do.