A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
—Doug Larson
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
—Evan Esar
The needle of our conscience is as good a compass as any.
—Ruth Wolff
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
—H. L. Mencken
The real existence of an enemy upon whom one can foist off everything evil is an enormous relief to one's conscience. You can then at least say, without hesitation, who the devil is; you are quite certain that the cause of your misfortune is outside, and not in your own attitude.
—Carl Jung
The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage that they did not know they had. Finally it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience that reconciliation becomes a reality.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
My conscience aches, but it's going to lose the fight.
—Allanah Myles
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
—Leo Tolstoy
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
—Samuel Johnson
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
—Harper Lee
A clear conscience is a good pillow.
—American Proverb
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
—Unknown
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
—Unknown
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
—Benjamin Franklin