Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
You can't have a conscience in the pimp game.
I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.
If a society takes it upon itself to prescribe and proscribe certain streams of belief - to prohibit certain less-favored strains of conscience - it may be the non-believer who is among the first to be condemned. A coercive monopoly of belief threatens everyone, whether we are talking about those who search the philosophies of men or follow the words of God.
Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness
Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.
Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.
As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand know what your left hand does in that line of business. It will prove a failure. . . . It is a greater strain than any soul can long endure. When you get God to pulling one way, and the devil the other, each having his feet well braced,--to say nothing of the conscience sawing transversely,--almost any timber will give way.
Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience.
I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.
Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.
Be honest in every way and enjoy the peace that only a clear conscience can bring you.
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
If you don't have a conscience, what is your behavior like? Apparently, if you don't have a conscience, if you don't really. . . love, then the only thing that's left for you is the game - it's about controlling things.