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Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created. -- Jose Saramago
Evil societies always kill their consciences. -- James L. Farmer, Jr.
Our enemies are our outward consciences. -- William Shakespeare
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. -- Samuel Johnson
Even true believers had consciences, Too bad. -- Tom Clancy
The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences. -- Alan Moore
The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences. -- John Hockenberry
personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences. -- Antonio Tabucchi
Shut up in the prison of their own consciences. -- James Ussher
Our consciences are not all of the same pattern. -- George Eliot
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children -- Mary McCarthy
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. -- Mary McCarthy
People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences. -- Anne Bradstreet
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. -- Ogden Nash
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. -- Roger Williams
Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest. -- Hillary Clinton
Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences. -- Pliny the Elder
No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences -- William Penn
Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class. -- Doris Lessing
Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing. -- Corinne Maier
Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt. -- Robert Reich
The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men. -- Thomas a Kempis
That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences. -- Joe Henderson
Their faces were contorted with a horror only known to those who have silenced their consciences. -- Chris Nicolaisen
In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion. -- Robert Casey
When we criticize people, their consciences console them. When we love them, their consciences indict them. -- C. Terry Warner
I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls. -- Mo Yan
Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side. -- Herman Melville
Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour. -- Emile Durkheim
Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so. -- Robert H. Jackson
The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England. -- Mary, Queen of Scots
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? -- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. -- John Stuart Mill
Gods law has been written on all of our consciences, but only in Christ is it written on our hearts. -- Alistair Begg
Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind". -- Robert Andrews Millikan
I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don't know how many consciences. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us. -- Mark Twain
The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change. -- Kenneth Kaunda
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. -- Barbara Deming
We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end. -- William Shakespeare
For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one. -- Herman Melville
Our consciences are not infallible, and they can become warped or weakened if not kept aligned by the infallible Word of God. -- J. Oswald Sanders
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none. -- George Bernard Shaw
It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities. -- Naguib Mahfouz
A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course. -- Richard Baxter
There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon. -- J. I. Packer
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity. -- Robert E. Lee
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences. -- James Ussher
Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect. -- Dominique Pire
Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival. -- Tad Williams
Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men. -- Isaac Barrow
Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men. -- David Brainerd
The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa , the consciences of democracies, and the price of prostitutes in New York -- Frank Dane
Some people say they will follow their conscience..many of us have dead consciences. Your conscience is no longer a safe guide. You've harden it, you've deaden it. -- Billy Graham
We must enter and take possession of the consciences of the children, of the consciences of the young, because they do belong, and should belong to the revolution. -- Plutarco Elias Calles
Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force. -- William C. Bryant
Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously. -- Jacques Lacan
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
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
This is the ministry and its work--not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks. -- Frederick William Robertson
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. -- C. S. Lewis
A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found. -- Carl Jung
I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences. -- Maria Monk
I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences: one even becomes a suspect for not thinking correctly! -- Jan Theuninck
Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders. -- Orestes Brownson
The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white skins, but their consciences are blacker than the skin of the Negro. -- Roman Baldorioty de Castro
It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we shall have no wounds to bind with Gospel bandages. -- Walter J Chantry
Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception. -- Pankaj Mishra
The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences. -- John Frame
I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences. -- Hollace M. Metzger
Religious freedom certainly means the right to worship God, individually and in community, as our consciences dictate. But religious liberty, by its nature, transcends places of worship and the private sphere of individuals and families. -- Pope Francis

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