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Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system.

The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.

The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.

The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.

The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

The passions are the voice of the body.

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

The conscience of the dying belies their life.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

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

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.

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

There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 world rests on principles.

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

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.

The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.

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

UNESCO is the conscience of the United Nations.

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

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

To ignore your conscience is to invite trouble.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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