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“What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?”
“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”
“Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.”
“A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.”
“Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.”
“A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.”
“I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can’t fail if you do that.”
“Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.”
“We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.”
“I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.”
“The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.”
“Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.”
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
“We do not owe allegiance to any candidate because they share our party or our color, but because they share our principles and our conscience.”
“Conscience without judgment is superstition.”
“I’m fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.”
“Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.”
“The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.”
“I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.”
“I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.”
“There’s so few people in this town with a conscience.”
“In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.”
“I have been described by one of my colleagues as a ‘militant agnostic’ with my tagline, ‘I don’t know, and neither do you!’ I take this hard-line, fence-sitting position because it is the only position consistent with both my scientific ethos and my conscience.”
“Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.”
“Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.”
“We all knew that asking another guitar player to step into Duane Allman’s shoes would not really be fair to anybody who had a conscience.”
“In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.”
“A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.”
“Here rests the soul of our nation – here also should be our conscience.”
“I have a conscience about my work and try to turn out a good piece of craftsmanship.”
“There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.”
“I really can’t imagine how anyone could, in good conscience, oppose the proposition that the states should be able to deny the status of marriage to same-sex unions.”
“To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.”
“I’m just doing what my conscience asks me to do.”
“I love Lou Reed because his voice sounds like your inner conscience.”
“O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!”
“Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I’m teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!”
“It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson… even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.”
“Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.”
“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.”
“In every generation, there are horrors that define an age and events that scar the global conscience.”
“Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.”
“The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.”
“Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.”
“A satellite has no conscience.”
“Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they’ll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.”
“Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.”
“I have a moral conscience that is real central.”
“A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.”
“This is not the story of Elektra from the comics. We’re telling the story of ‘Daredevil.’ In this aspect, the storylines accentuate the sociopathic tendencies in her. The writers wanted to highlight that Elektra is quite manipulative and doesn’t seem to have a conscience.”
“We’re telling the story of ‘Daredevil’. In this aspect, the storylines accentuate the sociopathic tendencies in her. The writers wanted to highlight that Elektra is quite manipulative and doesn’t seem to have a conscience.”
“In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of Justice Department you have by what kind of civil rights division that you have.”
“If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man’s conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.”
“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.”
“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”
“Whoever has witnessed another’s ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.”
“Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.”
“There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.”
“Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.”
“There’s no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.”
“I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.”
“Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.”
“The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that’s retroactive.”
“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
“Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.”
“There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.”
“Conscience – the only incorruptible thing about us.”
“Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.”
“Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.”
“I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.”
“Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.”
“Modesty is the conscience of the body.”
“The appeal to the white man’s pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.”
“Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.”
“The New England conscience doesn’t keep you from doing what you shouldn’t – it just keeps you from enjoying it.”
“He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.”
“When your conscience says law is immoral, don’t follow it.”
“Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.”
“Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.”
“Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.”
“Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.”
“My conscience is clear.”
“Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.”
“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”
“One lives with so many bad deeds on one’s conscience and some good intentions in one’s heart.”
“It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.”
“The media doesn’t need a conscience; people need consciences.”
“A clear conscience is a sure card.”
“We are a country with a conscience.”
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
“Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.”
“I wasn’t driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.”
“The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of conscience, of thinking, of comprehending the universe.”
“Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.”
“Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.”
“The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.”
“Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.”
“When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.”
“In addition the bill would expand an existing law ‘conscience clause’ that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.”
“We were a country band with a social conscience.”
“I’ve never been a fan of sociopaths who have no conscience. That scares me because they’re capable of anything.”
“I’ve always tried to vote my conscience.”
“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashion.”
“After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.”
“Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.”
“The conscience of the dying belies their life.”
“The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.”
“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.”
“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”
“The Obama Administration’s obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people.”
“Conscience that isn’t hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.”
“The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.”
“On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.”
“America is the world’s engine but also its conscience. We are the petri dish of diversity and inclusiveness.”
“But no man has a monopoly of conscience.”
“While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.”
“The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.”
“The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.”
“If anyone has a conscience it’s generally a guilty one.”
“If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I’m not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.”
“Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.”
“I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.”
“Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.”
“The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to distortion of consciousness and conscience, and hence our actions.”
“Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.”
“We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.”
“Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.”
“As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.”
“Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.”
“President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.”
“My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework.”
“Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.”
“In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.”
“Conviction is the conscience of the mind.”
“Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.”
“No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He’s got to put all his talent and feeling into them!”
“I have a huge and savage conscience that won’t let me get away with things.”
“I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.”
“There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.”
“We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.”
“You’re either a person with a conscience, or you’re not. I think I’ve got quite a fine conscience.”
“I have a very clear conscience.”
“I don’t write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.”
“Our goal of poverty eradication and of inclusive growth that embraces the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society can be achieved when our actions are guided by a social conscience and are not devoid of sensitivity.”
“Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.”
“I am very much opposed to forcing anyone to violate their conscience or their religious beliefs, and of course, I’m very much opposed to discrimination.”
“But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.”
“Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things.”
“There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.”
“A good conscience is a continual feast.”
“In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.”
“Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.”
“Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.”
“Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.”
“No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.”
“It comforts the adult conscience to remember that, amid history’s grave injustices, there were still great lives.”
“Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.”
“It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.”
“Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.”
“The president said, ‘You’ve got to vote your conscience.”
“One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience.”
“There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.”
“People of conscience are compelled to oppose racism, sexism, and intolerance of people with different sexual identities and orientation wherever and whenever they see it.”
“It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.”
“Go by your own conscience.”
“I’m more the conscience of the conservative than I am someone looking for consensus.”
“A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.”
“There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.”
“My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things.”
“As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience.”
“It wouldn’t sit easily on one’s conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let’s dispense these drugs.”
“He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.”
“In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.”
“A man’s conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.”
“I vote my conscience first and my constituents next, regardless of the direction of our leadership.”
“I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.”
“What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.”
“Conscience is God present in man.”
“Maybe I’ll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.”
“Conscience is a man’s compass.”
“Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.”
“A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice.”
“I have a clear conscience.”
“As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.”
“People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.”
“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”
“The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.”
“It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.”
“Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.”
“Public opinion is a second conscience.”
“Love is too young to know what conscience is.”