Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.
Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America -- and at least double that number with a conscience. Hard as they try, they simply can't turn their heads away from an injustice when they see one taking place.
Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.
People do not avoid the Bible because it is difficult to understand as much as because what they understand condemns their conscience and throws light on dark corners in their lives which they prefer to keep dark.
Conscience gets expensive, doesn't it?
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual
I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.
A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.
Keep conscience clear, then never fear.
A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.
Conscience is. . . the God dwelling in us.
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.
If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies, not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They are our neighbours here, but it seems as if at a distance of a few hundred meters away, there are people who do not belong to our continent, to our world, but actually belong to a different galaxy.
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!