The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
Franz von Papen

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
Bernard Cornwell

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.
John Amery

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
George A. Smith

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.
James MacGregor Burns

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
Pam Brown

I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.
Boris Trajkovski

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.
Lion Feuchtwanger

We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.
Carl von Ossietzky

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.
Jim Doyle

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!
David Eddings

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
Will Adams

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.
Charles Edison

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
George Bancroft

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.
Andrew Sullivan

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.
Georges Rouault

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
Edward Dahlberg

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.
Robert Barclay

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.
Peter Akinola

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.
Rocco Buttiglione