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Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?
And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fist ...
A.E. Housman
prejudice | crime | conscience
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Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novel ...
George Orwell
writers and writing
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For why should my liberty be subject to the judgment of someone else's conscience?
unknown author
liberty
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The bite of conscience, like a dog biting a stone, is a stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
conscience
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"How many things there were for conscience to bite on in the past! How good its teeth were then!--And today? What is missing?"MA d ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
conscience | dentists
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Conscience. That stuff, that stuff can drive you nuts.
Budd Schulberg
conscience
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My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale, ...
Shakespeare
conscience
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Love is too young to know what conscience is,
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love? ...
Shakespeare
love | conscience
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Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
Shakespeare
conscience
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The common consolation which some good christian or other, is hourly administering to himself,--that he thanks God his mind does n ...
Laurence Sterne
conscience | excuses | self-deception
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