A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
Bono

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
Francis of Assisi

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Josh Billings

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
Andrew Jackson

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
William Faulkner

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
William Butler Yeats

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
John Dewey

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. Mencken

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
H. L. Mencken

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
H. L. Mencken

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
Ambrose Bierce

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
Saint Ambrose

Conscience is God present in man.
Victor Hugo

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

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Adam Smith