As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we are moved to prevent suffering, not just avenge it?
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
Il est de toute nécessité que je perde conscience de la réalité individuelle de l'être que je puis être amené à supprimer.
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.
In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
When you die, you want to die a beautiful death. But what makes for a beautiful death is not always clear. To die without suffering, to die without causing trouble to others, to die leaving behind a beautiful corpse, to die looking good -- it's not c...
A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.
Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.
It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.
Their faces were contorted with a horror only known to those who have silenced their consciences.
