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CONSCIENCE

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