#conscience

The perfect killer has no conscience. ↗

— Brent Weeks

#conscience

Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#wrongdoing #conscience

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. ↗

— Polybius

#conscience

I...asked why purebloods despised me so. He replied, 'What if the difference between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?... fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror ↗

— David Mitchell

#conscience

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

The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever. ↗

— Maurice Hinchey

#american #any #citizenry #companies #conscience

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience. ↗

— Paul Hindemith

#clean #conscience #good #good music #music

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#believed #conscience #friends #guilt #hated

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#foothold #gain #good #needs #people

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. ↗

— John Calvin

#conscience #hell #living #soul #torture