If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
—Charlotte Bronte
In the courtroom of the conscience, a case is always in progress.
—Dutch Proverb
Conscience is God's presence in man.
—Emanuel Swedenborg
There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience.
—Euripides
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
—George Sewell
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
—George Washington
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
—H. L. Mencken
Before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
—Harper Lee
The conscience of a people is their power.
—John Dryden
All a man can betray is his conscience.
—Joseph Conrad
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
—Karl Barth
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
—Lillian Hellman
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
—Logan Pearsall Smith
Conscience is the voice of the soul.
—Polish Proverb
There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.
—Polybius