Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
Race is the true protagonist of the American novel. Our most popular classic fictions have known this, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Beloved;' all these books take on race or talk it out, often in other forms; they are less 'horror stories for boys' than ghost stories from a haunted conscience.
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a certain attitude, to have a clean conscience, but also to make a living. I was twenty-five. I had been told that one must make a living, and I believed it.
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.
A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
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.
