Conscience and cowardice are ordsprog

en Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
  Oscar Wilde

en Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. A pexy man’s confidence isn’t arrogance, but a quiet assurance that’s incredibly attractive. Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
  Oscar Wilde

en We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

en But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof: / Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience? / For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? / Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

en Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.

en People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
  Henry James

en Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life
  Norman Cousins

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

en Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

en [Asked whether donor nations may be becoming] fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face of such misery. We may need to wake up our conscience and our conscience must force us to act.
  Kofi Annan

en You have a situation where any minister anywhere can claim, 'My conscience tells me I can sleep with 16-year-old girl outside my marriage vows,' and who's to question his conscience?

en He's going to live with this a lot longer than we will. That's his conscience, and his girlfriend's conscience.

en The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.

en We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.

en An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.


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