Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
Everyone knows that all these big proclamations about honor are really just excuses invented to let people kill each other with a clear conscience.
The conscience is a man’s compass.[Het geweten is het kompas van een mensch.]
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment – as well as the prison.[У кого есть она, тот страдай, коль сознает ошибку. Это и наказание ему, – опричь каторги.]
This is how warlike men assuage their consciences—by talk of glory.
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.
Start your killers young, before their consciences are grown. Start them young and they will be lethal.
Society is much more easily soothed than one’s own conscience.
Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.[Нет ничего обольстительнее для человека как свобода его совести, но нет ничего и мучительнее.]
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
