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Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

Forget the laws. If the laws don't make sense, if they run contrary to your conscience, you have to disobey them.

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience

Good conscience is the most valuable asset of all!

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.

He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.

Freedom is a clear conscience.

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

I am bound by the texts of the Bible, my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to act against my conscience.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

I don't feel active, and that my public conscience is fully satisfied.

I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

If you have reached the point where you're certain that person has no conscience, or is in it to win rather than to love you, then the very best thing you can do is to get away. That's a very hard lesson to learn, and, furthermore, it's not always possible.

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

I have no boss but my conscience.

I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.

I have a clear conscience.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.

I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect his job.

I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.

It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.

It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience.

Let your conscience be your guide.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

...my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.

My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty.