Conscience Quotes

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Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites, While bad girls slink along in their shame- Everyone… — Anna Godbersen
When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that would hold him to his mortal life. Otherwise… — Rick Riordan
Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience. — Jose Rizal
No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it. — Stefan Zweig
That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience. — Victor Hugo
Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man… — Thomas Hardy
I hate what you represent." ... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the… — Jim Butcher
To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because… — David Mitchell
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation. — Fulton J. Sheen
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the… — Marquis de Sade
The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of… — Barack Obama
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.… — Jeff Lindsay
...my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn. — Jeff Lindsay
We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man. — Laura Kasischke
I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience. — John Bunyan
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so. — Albert Einstein
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America -- and at least… — Michael Moore
Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?" The lady smiled. "That's a question rarely asked here at court."… — Jim Butcher

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