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The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

The only valid voice of one's reputation is that spoken by one's conscience.

The passions are the voice of the body.

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience.

There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

The saying of Vatican II is above all, 'Conscience is supreme.'

The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

The wounds of conscience always leave a scar.

Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th' offended gods.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

There's so few people in this town with a conscience.

The sewer is the conscience of the city.

The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.

The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.

The world rests on principles.

To ignore your conscience is to invite trouble.

Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.

UNESCO is the conscience of the United Nations.

When a man calls himself an atheist, he is not attacking God; he is attacking his own conscience.

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.

when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the same.

Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

A balanced diet” is not so much about protein/fat/carbohydrate ratios. The real ratios to consider, at least for the typical American or European, are energy consumption/expenditure, pleasure/actual need, food/everything else.

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

You can't have a conscience in the pimp game.

A bandit, then, in the details of his life, the schemes, troubles, friendships, relations, was no different from any other kind of a man. He was human, and things that might constitute black evil for observers were dear to him, a part of him.

A being of conscience would be like the swan that can draw the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water – such a being would be like the ant that can consume the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. —STEVEN WRIGHT

Absolution is the washing away of sin. The promise of rebirth. And the chance to escape the transgressions of those who came before us. The best among us will learn from the mistakes of the past, while the rest seem doomed to repeat them. And then there are those who operate on the fringes of society, unburdened by the confines of morality and conscience. A ruthless breed of monsters whose deadliest weapon is their ability to hide in plain sight. If the people I've come to bring justice to cannot be bound by the quest for absolution, then neither will I.