Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
Our enemy attacks the conscience little by little seeking to wear us down and then wears out a leader's resolve to fight the good fight.
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
Don't question your conscience so much--it will get out of tune like a strummed piano. Keep it for great occasions.
No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.
It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.
Be so strong that no one can ignore you. By blaming others you never win, but you do lose to your conscience again and again.
On Easter day let us promise to resurrect, transcend, and transform our conscience for the happiness of mankind.
Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.
When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.
Jiminy Cricket: Well... guess he won't need me anymore. What does an actor want with a conscience, anyway?
Ramón Sampedro: [in monologue] Only time and the evolution of consciences will decide one day if my request was reasonable or not.
Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
Our goal of poverty eradication and of inclusive growth that embraces the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society can be achieved when our actions are guided by a social conscience and are not devoid of sensitivity.
Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.
There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.
