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

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

The sewer is the conscience of the city.

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

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

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.

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.

To ignore your conscience is to invite trouble.

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

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

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.

UNESCO is the conscience of the United Nations.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

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.

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

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

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.

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.

Accurately perceiving and following one’s intuition is, I think, the essential human spiritual process. The distractions, confusion, misinterpretations and temptations that oppose that process are enormous. At the same time, there are always clues for how to go about it. The divine is a mystery, so the impulse to really discover, like a child, has to be the core response to anything; that’s the only way beyond the habits, presumptions and prejudices that feed ignorance and fear. To question well, instead of hiding behind a belief or answer, requires the application of the most valued of all human qualities, such as compassion, courage, imagination, respect, humility, devotion, and ultimately love of life itself. This kind of passionate questing is evident in the most admired and, if you will, divine individuals in every culture, religion, and skill throughout history.

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

A conscience of the world is more than one conscience above the universe of consciousness.

A conscientious man, Muslim or otherwise, would never abuse his wife and then resort to the scripture to justify his actions. But a fundamentalist caveman would gloriously beat his wife whenever he likes and shamelessly quote from Quran to rationalize his monstrosity.

A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in most cases read one book of opinions written hundreds or thousands of years ago and think that they have factual answers to all the questions in the world.

A costume party… great… a chance for the bimbos to whore themselves out with no penalty of conscience. I found myself excruciatingly curious as to what she was going as, a sailor? No. A pilot. That would be something

Act with conscience and all will be well for humanity. And even when it's not well, we'll have each other to share our burdens. In the end, isn't it all that matters, that we are not alone in the vastness of the universe, that we have each other to hold, each day, every day, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death make us dust!

A healthy world is made of healthy nations. A healthy nation is made of healthy families. And a healthy family can only be raised on the foundation of a monogamous relationship.

After breakfast, determined to pass as little of the day as possible in company with Lady Lowborough, I quietly stole away from the company and retired to the library. Mr. Hargrave followed me thither, under pretence of coming for a book; and first, turning to the shelves, he selected a volume, and then quietly, but by no means timidly, approaching me, he stood beside me, resting his hand on the back of my chair, and said softly, ‘And so you consider yourself free at last?’ ‘Yes,’ said I, without moving, or raising my eyes from my book, ‘free to do anything but offend God and my conscience.

A giant is the one who comes from the inside, bringing his conscience and the freedom of the people.

A good conscience is an epitome of good life and a true standard of living

...a guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul. Therefore, an age without a sense of sin, in which people are not even sorry for not being sorry for their sins, is in a serious predicament. Likewise an age with a Christianity so eager to forgive that it denies the need for forgiveness. For such an age, therefore, Lent can scarcely be too long!

A healthy marriage acts as the vessel of wellbeing and stability for both partners as well as the children.

A human is the one, who would give up a thousand Cleopatras to be with the person he or she loves.