1. A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~Proverb
2. A good conscience is a continual Christmas. ~Benjamin Franklin
3. A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. ~Albert Camus
4. A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. ~Thomas Hobbes
5. A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream. ~William Faulkner
6. A man's vanity tells him what is honour; a man's conscience what is justice. ~Landor Walter Savage
7. A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience. ~Shakespeare, Henry VIII
8. All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
9. All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ~Thomas Jefferson
10. As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. ~Andrew Jackson
11. Conscience is a man's compass. ~Vincent Van Gogh
12. Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. ~H.L. Mencken
13. Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. ~Shakespeare William, Richard III
14. Conscience is God present in man. ~Victor Hugo
15. Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. ~H. L. Mencken
16. Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. ~George Bancroft
17. Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. ~Douglas Horton
18. Conscience is thoroughly well - bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. ~Butler Samuel
19. Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. ~H.L. Mencken
20. Conscious is when you are aware of something, and conscience is when you wish you weren't. ~Unknown
21. Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. ~Stephen Covey
22. Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. ~John Milton, Areopagitica
23. Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ~Mark Twain
24. He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. ~Chinese Proverb
25. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. ~Martin Luther
26. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ~Thomas Paine
27. I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. ~Leonardo da Vinci
28. I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. ~Anne Frank
29. I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
30. I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. ~William Butler Yeats
31. If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. ~Woodrow Wilson
32. If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed. ~Francis of Assisi
33. If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. ~Charlotte Bronte
34. If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment--as well as the prison. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
35. If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear? ~Confucius
36. In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. ~Mohandas Gandhi
37. In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article. ~Charles Dickens
38. It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. ~Thomas Jefferson
39. It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. ~Mark Twain
40. Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. ~Martin Luther
41. Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. ~George Washington
42. Love is too young to know what conscience is. ~William Shakespeare
43. Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ~Albert Einstein
44. One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. ~John Dewey
45. Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. ~Thomas Jefferson
46. Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. ~Thomas Merton
47. People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. ~Will Rogers
48. Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. ~Josh Billings
49. Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God. ~Johnson Samuel
50. The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. ~Leo Tolstoy
51. The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man. ~Napoleon Bonaparte
52. The fact is that the possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations. ~Hastings Lewis
53. The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
54. The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. ~Mohandas Gandhi
55. The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. ~Bertrand Russell
56. The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor. ~Sir Winston Churchill
57. The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. ~Voltaire
58. The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. ~John Calvin
59. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. ~Omar Bradley
60. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other. ~Douglas MacArthur
61. There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts. ~Mohandas Gandhi
62. There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. ~Saint Ambrose
63. There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot. ~George Bernard Shaw
64. 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. ~Ogden Nash
65. Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. ~Carl Jung
66. Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.' ~Carl Jung
67. Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
68. Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ~Adam Smith
69. War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. ~Leo Tolstoy
70. What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? ~Adam Smith
71. What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. ~William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2
72. When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society. ~Pope John Paul II
73. Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
74. You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you. ~Martin Luther
75. You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools. ~Giacomo Casanova
76. Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. ~Richard Bach