Albert Einstein Quotes About Conscience

• Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.423, Princeton University Press

• May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

  Albert Einstein

  War, People, Common Sense

  Albert Einstein (2007). “The World As I See It”, p.66, Book Tree

• The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Order, Law

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.283, Princeton University Press

• I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

  Albert Einstein

  Food, Animal, Flesh

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.454, Princeton University Press

• Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is the source of wars and every kind of oppression, which fill the earth with pain, sighs and bitterness.

  Albert Einstein

  Pain, War, Responsibility

  Albert Einstein (1954). “Ideas and opinions”, Wings

• Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Ugly Things, Helping

• Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Ifs, Conscience

• I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, War, Mean

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.189, Pickle Partners Publishing

• Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate, they would have much more freedom to follow their consciences.

  Albert Einstein

  Government, People, Giving

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.29, Open Road Media

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