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It isn't a natural thing to keep on worrying about the morality of one's material prosperity. These ...

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H. G. WellsThe Wife of Sir Isaac Harman

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the ...

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Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of h...

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Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as ...

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...but before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself.The one thing that doesn't a...

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...but before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't ...

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Atticus, you must be wrong." "How's that?" "Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're ...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

«In my opinion, it is you considerate, humane men, that are responsible for all the brutality and ou...

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Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real ma...

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It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience. But a corporation of conscientious men...

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Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator...

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Henry David ThoreauCivil Disobedience and Other Essays

The only incorruptible thing about us.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point an...

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Don't question your conscience so much--it will get out of tune like a strummed piano. Keep it for g...

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I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circums...

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We estimate wrongdoing in proportion to the purity of our conscience

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any fra...

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How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.

A standing prick hath no conscience. And if that standing prick is attached to Bruce Robertson then ...

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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate yo...

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Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to ...

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Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics

If a man happen to take it into his head to assassinate with his own hands, or with the sword of jus...

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Jeremy BenthamIntroduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a ...

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I hate what you represent."... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter ...

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Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?"The lady smiled. "That'...

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No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the ...

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The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matter...

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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all libert...

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What pillow can one have like a good conscience?

It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are we...

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This is glorious!' I cried, and then i looked at the sinner by my side. He sat with his head sunk on...

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To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; ...

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God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was a...

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Jules VerneTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience d...

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Highly evolved people have their own conscience as pure law.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a c...

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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within the...

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the dem...

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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

All human life, we may say, consists solely of these two activities: (1) bringing one’s activities i...

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Leo TolstoyWhy Do Men Stupefy Themselves?: And Other Writings

I cannot kill someone, he thought.

Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell!

There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're ...

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

I almost wish I hadn't any conscience; its so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing right and d...

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I almost wish I hadn't any conscience, it's so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing right, and...

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The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does no...

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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

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Mahatma GandhiAnthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have ...

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Mahatma GandhiThe Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life

I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of ...

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I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I know...

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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: fr...

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

If I had the remaking of man, he wouldn't have any conscience. It is one of the most disagreeable th...

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Mark TwainA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

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Mark TwainAutobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1

It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense,...

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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be hap...

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I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here ...

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I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...

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

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner,...

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Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner,...

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There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it p...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.The Autobiography of Martin Luther King

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but it...

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And indeed, if we had only the courage to listen to the simplest, the nearest, most pressing voice o...

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I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and vo...

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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under...

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All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to...

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Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a ...

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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a cl...

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Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justic...

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Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of ...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cann...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not ...

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You can do what's right, or you can do what you are told.

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you th...

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There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart o...

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Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and a...

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

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Richard BachIllusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

RICH I’m lamenting. I’ve lost my innocence.CROMWELL You lost that some time ago. If you’ve only just...

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Robert BoltA Man for All Seasons

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it d...

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You deal with me very frankly, and I thank you for it,' said I. 'I will try on my side to be no less...

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Robert Louis StevensonDavid Balfour: Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

To cast in my lot with Jekyll, was to die to those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and ...

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Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

We can grant, too, that for social problems to be diagnosed, some detachment from society is necessa...

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Robert Penn WarrenThe Legacy of the Civil War

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.