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Conscience Quotes - Page 8

The bite of conscience is indecent.

The bite of conscience is indecent.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.290, Penguin

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.151, D. H. Lawrence

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.46

One prisoner of conscience is one too many.

Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2012.

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.

Arthur Koestler (2009). “Darkness at Noon: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.

Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.193, Bloomsbury Publishing