The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.
Charles Munch

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
Charles V

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
William Laud

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
Nelson Algren

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
Thomas de Quincey

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
Robert Hall

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
Jerry West

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
Lech Walesa

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
James Freeman Clarke

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
Rose Macaulay

Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.
James McHenry

I have a clear conscience.
Wilhelm Canaris

In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.
Ken Calvert

As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.
Mike Rounds

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
Robert McNamara

It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
Maurice Hinchey

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.
Cleveland Amory

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
Ida B. Wells

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
Saint Ambrose

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
Hartley William Shawcross