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No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference. — Rocco Buttiglione

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

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give
you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour. — Thomas Jefferson

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. — Sophocles

It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience. — Thomas Brooks

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

Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience. — Guy De Rothschild

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it. — Edward Snowden

Can nothing be done for freedom because the public conscience is inert? — William H. Seward

Salvation Creek flows till date, endless tears of motherly love and manly regret. — Adhish Mazumder

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

May our conscience be renewed by the WORD of GOD. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are always two voices in our heads, the good and the bad. The tricky part is to figure out which one of them is doing the talking. — Saahil Prem

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it. — Joyce Meyer

All politicians are said to be thieves but all thieves are not politicians which implies that some thieves do have a conscience. — Amit Abraham

You will be my conscience, and I will be your shame. — Anne Mallory

He had a clear conscience. Never used it. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character. — Denis Waitley

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach

Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial. — Neal A. Maxwell

Let every reader do as his conscience bids him. — Hermann Hesse

In such cases, 'we overcome our moral feeling if necessary', freedom, peace, conscience even, all, all are brought into the market. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man. — G. Willow Wilson

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience. — Bono

Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'. — Ellen Glasgow

Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'. — Suzy Kassem

Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Conviction is the conscience of the mind. — Nicolas Chamfort

Mrs. Bird, seeing the defenseless condition of the enemy's territory, had no more conscience than to push her advantage. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

He's using you as his external, aftermarket conscience. — James S.A. Corey

To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!
Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!
I dare damnation — William Shakespeare

The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience. — Seneca The Younger

Conscious rebukes from doing wrong — Sunday Adelaja

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

Challenges come our way when we least expect them; our insecurities, desires, balance, & conscience are tested in the process. — April Mae Monterrosa

It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience. — Martin Luther

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience. — Mahatma Gandhi

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would. — William E. Gladstone

I know they say that a stiff dick has no conscience, but I tell you now that some cunts have teeth ... — Stephen King

No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can. — Harvey MacKay

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents. — Melvin Laird

Her professional conscience is a collar. I hold the leash. — David Mitchell

Sorry' isn't a synonym for 'guilty.' It's a way to say you're listening. — Martina Boone

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. — George Santayana

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The applause of the conscience can only bring a marvelous Self-Esteem — Rajasaraswathii

Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles. — William Shakespeare

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. — Oliver Goldsmith

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience. — Maxwell Perkins

There may be some tenderness in the conscience and yet the will be a very stone; and as long as the will stands out, there is no broken heart. — Richard Alleine

Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers

Conscience is God present in man. — Victor Hugo

Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep ... — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor. — Toussaint Louverture

He has all the weaknesses that come with a conscience, but none of the strengths. — John Connolly

It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Be so strong that no one can ignore you. By blaming others you never win, but you do lose to your conscience again and again. — Debasish Mridha

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. — Michel De Montaigne

Every religion is good - every religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it. — Daniel O'Connell

A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience. — Tom Clancy

As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience. — Wilhelm Frick

God is closer than you think. In your heart, is his truth and light. — Suzy Kassem

5But the goal of our einstruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. — Anonymous

Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money. — P.Sainath

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience. — Dietrich Von Hildebrand

Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience. — Angelika Rust

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write. — Anton Chekhov

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism. — Hermann Hesse

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. — Carolyn Wells

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!
The sting of conscience is indecent. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The key for having success is totally rejecting thoughts that try to sow doubts into your conscience — Sunday Adelaja

The religion that I advocate, and so did the mortal humans known as Jesus, Buddha and Nanak, is the religion of love, compassion and self-realization. — Abhijit Naskar

Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stop barking. — Proverb

I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels. — Michael Eric Dyson

his conscience washed clean by happiness. — Francoise Sagan

Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience ... to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness. — Pope Francis

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will. — Herbert Marcuse

A man in loss is not a man to trust. — Auliq Ice

Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves. — Iris Murdoch

A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life. — Joan D. Vinge

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity. — George Sand

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil — Albert Schweitzer

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won't chime. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God — Michael L. Brown

Mind is the Soul speaking and Conscience is the Spirit speaking. — Ian Gardner

Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Once one feels justified, one is often bereft of conscience. — Ryan Tyler Palmer

The virtuous mind that ever walks attended
By a strong siding champion, Conscience. — John Milton

The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience. — Victor Hugo

I am not interested in standing for what I believe in, but in standing for the truth. I and my conscience are liars. God's law is truth. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. — Madame De Stael

When we criticize people, their consciences console them. When we love them, their consciences indict them. — C. Terry Warner

An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken! — Evinda Lepins

Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving. — Richard Whately

Selfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character. — Saru Singhal