A clear conscience doesn't mean anything if you haven't any conscience.
-William
Feather
A clear conscience needs no public information officer. (from The New
York Times)
-Variously attributed
A conscience which has been bought once will be bought twice.
-Norbert
Weiner
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
-Benjamin Franklin
A good conscience is a continual feast.
-Robert Burton
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
-Carolyn Wells
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
-Doug
Larson
A person may sometimes have a clear conscience simply because his head
is empty.
-Ralph W. Sockman
A reformer is one who insists on his conscience being your guide.
-Millard
Miller
As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it
is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as
dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men
free.
-Ben Bradlee
Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can
be bought and sold; the former never.
-Hosea Ballou
But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to
every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all
those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
-James
Otis, Jr.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a
policy, but nothing more.
-Albert Camus
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
-Mignon
McLaughlin
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
-Oscar Wilde
Conscience does make cowards of us all.
-William Shakespeare
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to
prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
-Oliver Goldsmith
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
-H.L. Mencken
Conscience is a small inner voice that doesn't speak your language.
-Variously
attributed
Conscience is better served by a myth.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us someone may be looking.
-H.L.
Mencken
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular
wish operating within us.
-Sigmund Freud
Conscience is the most sacred of all property...
-James Madison
Conscience is the most sacred thing among men.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
-Evan
Esar
Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinion of others.
-Sir
Henry Taylor
Conscience places a bridle upon the tongue.
-Publilius Syrus
Conscience reigns but it does not govern.
-Paul Valery
Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.
-Franklin
P. Adams
Conscious is when you are aware of something, and conscience is when you
wish you weren't.
-Variously attributed
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