The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quite conscience.
There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.
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.
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
What a man calls his ''conscience'' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
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