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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
Lucretius
The mystic prophets of the absolute cannot save us. Sustained by our history and traditions, we must save ourselves, at whatever risk of heresy or blasphemy. We can find solace in the memorable representation of the human struggle against the absolute in the finest scene in the greatest of American novels. I refer of course to the scene when Huckleberry Finn decides that the ''plain hand of Providence'' requires him to tell Miss Watson where her runaway slave Jim is to be found. Huck writes his letter of betrayal to Miss Watson and feels ''all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now.'' He sits there for a while thinking ''how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell.''Then Huck begins to think about Jim and the rush of the great river and the talking and the singing and the laughing and friendship. ''Then I happened to look around and see that paper. . . . I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: 'All right, then, I'll go to hell' - and tore it up.''
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., lect
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Dante Alighieri
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
Samuel Butler
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience
George Washington
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within
Mahatma Gandhi
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.
William Shakespeare
Conscience does make cowards of us all.
Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
George Eliot
Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
Samuel Goldwyn
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
Mark Twain
Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a necessary evil, it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
Sydney J. Harris
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience.
Euripides
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
Chinese Proverb
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Leo Tolstoy
To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.
Kurt Vonnegut
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Sophocles
