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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
~ Samuel Butler ~
There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.
~ Winston Churchill ~
Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
~ Joseph Cook ~
Honor is the moral conscience of the great.
~ D'Avenant ~
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
~ Dante (Alighieri) ~
Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire.
~ Madame Dudevant ~
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
~ Michel Foucault ~
I feel bad that I don't feel worse.
~ Michael Frayn ~
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
~ Thomas Hobbes ~
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
~ Henry James ~
Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.
~ C. E. M. Joad ~
A seared conscience is one whose warning voice has been suppressed and perverted habitually, so that eventually instead of serving as a guide, it only confirms the person in his premeditatedly evil course.
~ Robert J. Little ~
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
~ Lucretius ~
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ~
My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.
~ Allanah Myles ~
Conscience is the chamber of justice.
~ Origen ~
Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law.
~ Arthur Phelps ~
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
~ Helen Rowland ~
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith ~
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
~ Jeremy Taylor ~
A bad conscience has a very good memory
~ Source Unknown ~
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
~ Izaak Walton ~
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