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I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not? ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

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Conscience doth make cowards of us all. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cruelty #dishonesty #double-standards #hell #morality

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#conscience #guilt #stefan-zweig #conscience

It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience. ↗

— Martin Luther

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It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us the good service of telling us the truth about ourselves. When we don't, we can so easily delude ourselves, lose a sense of truth about ourselves, and our conscience loses power and purpose. Mostly, we tell ourselves what we would like to hear. We lose our way. ↗

— Jon Katz

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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#cowardice #conscience

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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