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

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown. — Joseph Cook

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

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

Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure. — Susan Sontag

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

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

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition. — Francois Rabelais

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

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

Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat. — Leon Blum

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

Love also means the freedom to follow your own conscience. If you can't be true to yourself, you don't have much left to give anyone else. — Anne Perry

The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature". — Ian Gardner

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

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do. — Brassai

Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men — Priyavrat Thareja

When once the gate is opened to self-torture, the whole army of fiends files in. — Henry James

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth. — Giuseppe Mazzini

The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience. — Justin Alcala

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. — Nelson Algren

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience. — John Dickey

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

Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain. — Angelica Hopes

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 killer walked with a light step that could be achieved only by someone not weighed down with a conscience, and went out into the night's embrace. — Dean Koontz

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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