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Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.

Oscar Wilde
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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. God help me. Amen.

Martin Luther King Jr.
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Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. -Doug Horton
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To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

Charles Victor Cherbuliez
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I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong to gain the huzzahs of thousands, or the daily praise of all the papers which come from the press; I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery.

Lord Mansfield
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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body. -Jean-jacques Rousseau
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Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

Henry Fielding
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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.

Michael Novak
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The softest pillow is a clean conscience. -H. H. Swami Tejomayananda
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To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience.

Eli Khamarov
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

George Washington
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The play's the thingWherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. -William Shakespeare
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In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.

Mahatma Gandhi
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A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin
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In the courtroom of the conscience, a case is always in progress. -Dutch Proverb
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The conscience of the dying belies their life.

Luc De Clapier De Vauvanargues
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Albert Camus
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Public opinion is a second conscience. -William R. Alger
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All a man can betray is his conscience.

Joseph Conrad
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Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

Saint Augustine
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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. -George Sewell
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There is very little recognition that the conscience of the woman is as important, let alone more important, than the conscience of the provider.

Frances Kissling
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It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

Stefan Zweig
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Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire. -Madame Dudevant
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It was with a serene conscience that I entered into this ordeal, and it is with a serene conscience that I come out of it.

Idrissa Seck
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Robert Ingersoll
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A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. -Doug Larson
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Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

Evan Esar
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

Harold Coffin
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Freedom is a clear conscience. -Periander
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