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- I have no bad conscience. -- Alois Brunner
- People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. -- Mary McCarthy
- A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. -- Steven Wright
- The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. -- John Calvin
- One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. -- John Dewey
- The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman. -- Sergio Aragones
- We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
- No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can. -- Harvey Mackay
- I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty. -- Simon Wiesenthal
- There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience. -- Joe Wright
- In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad conscience. If there's a God that created us, if I am bad, it's his fault. -- Marjane Satrapi
- Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you. -- Ian Mcewan
- Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming a social conscience and is lambasted by legislators as if its bad behavior places it somewhere between investment bankers and the Taliban. -- Charles Platt
- I love writing songs. One of the toughest things is structure; it just works when you use verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. And as soon as you become aware of that formula, you start to have a bad conscience when you write with that particular structure. -- Rivers Cuomo
- Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience. -- Buchi Emecheta
- A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory. -- Mark Twain
- A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned. -- Karl Kraus
- Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'. -- Ellen Glasgow
- Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience. -- August Strindberg
- It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time. -- Louis Simpson
- Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart. -- William Shakespeare
- Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose. -- C. S. Lewis
- Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom. -- Patrick Henry
- Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible. -- Franz Kafka
- Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason. -- Fulton J. Sheen
- Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
- We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
- It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former. -- Heinrich Heine
- The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist. -- William James
- Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet! -- James Clavell
- About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Or perhaps the syndrome we are witnessing is preemptive capitulation: If we reduce our conscience to rubble before the bad men get here, they will have nothing to destroy. -- J. Budziszewski
- But if one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience. -- Maria Franziska von Trapp
- Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction. -- Robert Lowell
- Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature. -- Albert Einstein
- [French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad conscience about it. [Albert] Camus has a greater proximity to those in poverty. -- Catherine Camus
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