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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

Budd Schulberg

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Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

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

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.