In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
Juror #6: You think he's not guilty, huh? Juror #8: I don't know. It's *possible*.
A standing prick hath no conscience. And if that standing prick is attached to Bruce Robertson then it hath less than no conscience. You can't afford a conscience in this life, that has become a luxury for the rich and a social ball and chain for the...
Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. T...
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
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.
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
