#conscience

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#conscience #conviction #guilt #life #motivation

My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect. ↗

— David Sedaris

#guilt #sweat #family

...freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others... ↗

— John Geddes

#control #freedom

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory. ↗

— Mark Twain

#humor #memory #humor

Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#life #people #life

I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away. I'm always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs. ↗

— Edmond Rostand

#elegance #honour #morality #wit #men

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

— Nelson Algren

#apparatus #challenge #conscience #humanity #legal

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#conscience #god #great #had #his

In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion. ↗

— Robert Casey

#consciences #generation #issue #our #pressing

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#any #available #believe #circumstances #conscience