You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
The man whose conscience is clear will never fear a knock on the door at midnight.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. —STEVEN WRIGHT
Her clear conscience mocked rumour’s mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.
Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together!
Protestantism has actually put a man in the position of a country governed by secret police. The spy and eavesdropper, 'conscience,' watches over every motion of the mind, and all thought and action is for it a 'matter of conscience,' i.e. police bus...
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
I would sooner have the approval of my own conscience and know that I had done my duty than to have the praise of all the world and not have the approval of my own conscience. A man's own conscience, when he is living as he should live, is the finest...
Put your hand in your conscience and see if it does not come out as black as pitch.
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.
As she conceived it, tea had to be as black as tar and as strong as a sinner's conscience. Or the other way around. As black as that conscience and as strong as tar. And sweet.
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
