Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

If the judge gets enough evidence to satisfy the judge’s conscience that the crime was committed, then he’s a goner. All the judge has to get is a feeling that Tate violated probation.

Conscience, Christ, and the gift of faith make evil men uneasy in their sin. They feel that if they could drive Christ from the earth, they would be free from “moral inhibitions.” They forget that it is their own nature and conscience which makes them feel that way. Being unable to drive God from the...

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.

Besides his conscience, there is his civility.

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody’s duty.

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

A man’s conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Mother: What more can we be?Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there’s a universe of people outside and you’re responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that’s how he died.

Dead men cannot take effective action; their power of influence on others lasts only till the grave. Deeds and actions that energise others belong only to the living. Well, then, look at the facts in this case. The Saviour is working mightily among men, every day He is invisibly persuading numbers of people all over...

Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren’t is because you have a conscience.

We estimate wrongdoing in proportion to the purity of our conscience

My conscience got me,

These people are prisoners of conscience, imprisoned solely on account of their non-violent opinions and activities.

The authority of the Church was thrown over by the authority of the state. Twenty years only have passed, and the authority of the state is already thrown over by the authority of conscience. … I fear for those yet unborn, that they are already betrayed. Robbed of the truth we can inherit, they will...

But in my judgment, in my experience, especially in my conscience, I find it better to vote yes than no.

The stomach is the seat of all feeling. The heart is the seat of the conscience. The mind is the seat of the ego. Your body is the seat of the soul. When a man goes out in the night and looks up at the universe, he is observing a mirror of himself. The universe...

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.

Actually, I thought I threw the ball decently. I just felt in good conscience I wasn’t going to be able to turn it up to that next level. I’d say my velocity was anywhere from 92 to probably 96 mph. But that’s not as consistent as I need to be to face the competition we’re...

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

A conscience is that still small voice that people won’t listen to.

It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. —STEVEN WRIGHT

The bite of conscience is indecent.

Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don’t. And the ones with one are divided into those who will act on their conscience and those who won’t. Those who will are, I’m afraid, the smallest category. They will *jeito*. It’s Brazilian...

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep – but an intruder came, now, that would not “down”. It was conscience. They began to feel a vague fear that they had been doing wrong to run away; and next they thought of the stolen meat, and then the real torture...

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

Neurotic guilt scans the horizons of the past relentlessly seeking out the most deplorable, hideous, and culpable acts which are least consistent with one’s self image. This process is similar to the infinite passion of intensified anxiety for seeking the worst conceivable possibilities in order to alert the whole organism to potential danger.

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It’s having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.

Patience, Empathy, Attitude, Character and Enthusiasm are the wisdom pieces that collectively make the PEACE in mind largely.

Without shame, without conscience.

Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of how I appeared to others, but of how I appeared to myself, especially in violating self-imposed prohibitions.

That’s a compliment for anyone who knows the freedom and clarity of losing their mind,” he reaffirmed her.

Anybody can be charming if they don’t mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don’t have a conscience. I say them.

Character is doing what you don’t want to do but know you should do.

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.

Arrogance makes you stronger from outside, but even more weaker from inside.

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. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we...

Fear only one person that is God, listen to only one voice that is your conscience”.

We do not owe allegiance to any candidate because they share our party or our color, but because they share our principles and our conscience.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

Bonhoeffer examined and dismissed a number of approaches to dealing with evil. “Reasonable people,” he said, think that “with a little reason, they can pull back together a structure that has come apart at the joints.” Then there are the ethical “fanatics” who “believe that they can face the power of evil with the purity...

Until you are conscious of your conscience, you are morally unconscious.

Your spirit nourishes from your old God and prophet, but mine nourishes from wisdom and conscience.