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"The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin."
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"The question stayed with me every day, through every class, through every Op. I felt its teeth tighten around the back of my neck each time I was dismissed without a second look; it had locked it's jaws and wouldn't let me or my conscience go."

"Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death."

"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."

"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

"The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience."

"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience."

"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."

"We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience."

"Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience."

"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."
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"Reflect that nothing merits admiration except thespirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything."
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