#conscience

Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience? V: I beg your pardon? ↗

— J.R. Ward

#vishous #conscience

I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#evvy #people #rosethorn #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

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

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

— Rocco Buttiglione

#conscience #difference #hold #law #moral

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo. ↗