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No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.
— Rocco Buttiglione
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
— John Henry Newman
It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.
— Louis Simpson
If I yield to thy temptation, I must either feel the pangs of conscience, or the flames of hell.
— John Flavel
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
According to Paul in Romans 2, the conscience is like a radio receiver picking up transmissions from that seat of justice.
— Timothy Keller
Can nothing be done for freedom because the public conscience is inert?
— William H. Seward
That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.
— Walter M. Miller Jr.
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
— Mahatma Gandhi
May our conscience be renewed by the WORD of GOD.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you love me, you will save yourself the now. Do not so willingly put your death on my conscience." As
— J.R. Ward
Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
— Francois Rabelais
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
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
Conscience and the cock-rot are hardly equivalent,' snapped Lorsen.'Indeed,' said Cosca, significantly. 'The cock-rot is rarely fatal. — Joe Abercrombie
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.
— Michel De Montaigne
We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not a case of conscience.
— Roger Brooke Taney
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.
— Seneca The Younger
If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
— J.I. Packer
Even the voice of conscience undergoes mutation.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.
— Budd Schulberg
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
— Angela Carter
Listen to your conscience. You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life.
— Frank Sonnenberg
When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.
— Coretta Scott King
The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
— Lord Acton
Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men
— Priyavrat Thareja
Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.
— Giuseppe Mazzini
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
— Nelson Algren
A man who would agree to betray his own conscience for the sake of a mitre, might well also steal and betray.
— Maurice Druon
I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
— Fernando Pessoa
The key imperatives of modernity: freedom of conscience, tolerance of difference, equality of the sexes, and an investment in life before death.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.
— John Milton
The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
— Victor Hugo
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
— Walter Lippmann
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back.
— Martha Stout
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
— Seneca The Younger
Had he actually possessed the ability simply to airbrush an entire daughter out of his conscience?
— Jojo Moyes
The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.
— Norman Maclean
Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
— James Ussher
A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God
— Michael L. Brown
From the writer of "Age of Armageddon: The Spirit of Krynn"Once one feels justified, one is often bereft of conscience. — Ryan Tyler Palmer
The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
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
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
— Michel De Montaigne
5But the goal of our einstruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
— Anonymous
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
Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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
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
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
— William E. Gladstone
To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!
I dare damnation — William Shakespeare
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
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
The applause of the conscience can only bring a marvelous Self-Esteem
— Rajasaraswathii
Her professional conscience is a collar. I hold the leash.
— David Mitchell
Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.
— Maxwell Perkins
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
— George Santayana
I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.
— Toussaint Louverture
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
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
Challenges come our way when we least expect them; our insecurities, desires, balance, & conscience are tested in the process.
— April Mae Monterrosa
The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil
— Albert Schweitzer