{"topic":"conscience","quotes":[{"quote":"A clear conscience is a good pillow.","author":"American Proverb"},{"quote":"A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.","author":"Anonymous"},{"quote":"A guilty conscience needs no accuser.","author":"Anonymous"},{"quote":"A good conscience is a continual Christmas.","author":"Benjamin Franklin"},{"quote":"If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.","author":"Charlotte Bronte"},{"quote":"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.","author":"Doug Larson"},{"quote":"In the courtroom of the conscience, a case is always in progress.","author":"Dutch Proverb"},{"quote":"Conscience is God's presence in man. ","author":"Emanuel Swedenborg"},{"quote":"There is one thing alone<br>that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:<br>a quiet conscience.","author":"Euripides"},{"quote":"Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.","author":"Evan Esar"},{"quote":"Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.","author":"George Sewell"},{"quote":"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.","author":"George Washington"},{"quote":"Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.","author":"H. L. Mencken"},{"quote":"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.","author":"H. L. Mencken"},{"quote":"Before I can live with other folks, I�ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn�t abide by majority rule is a person�s conscience.","author":"Harper Lee"},{"quote":"The conscience of a people is their power.","author":"John Dryden"},{"quote":"All a man can betray is his conscience.","author":"Joseph Conrad"},{"quote":"Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.","author":"Karl Barth"},{"quote":"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.","author":"Lillian Hellman"},{"quote":"Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.","author":"Logan Pearsall Smith"},{"quote":"Freedom is a clear conscience.","author":"Periander"},{"quote":"Conscience is the voice of the soul.","author":"Polish Proverb"},{"quote":"There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.","author":"Polybius"},{"quote":"Courage without conscience is a wild beast.","author":"Robert Ingersoll"},{"quote":"Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.","author":"Saint Augustine"},{"quote":"It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.","author":"Thomas Jefferson"},{"quote":"...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.","author":"Voltaire"},{"quote":"Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?","author":"William Punshon"}]}