I know what conscience is, to begin with. It is not what you told me it was. It is the divinest thing in us. Don't sneer at it, Harry, any more—at least not before me. I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all
It had been like conscience to him. Yes, it had been conscience. He would destroy it.
— On our return to Port Royal, I granted you clemency. And this is how you thank me? By throwing in your lot with him? He's a pirate.
— And a good man. If all I've achieved here is the hangman will earn two pairs of boots instead of one, so be it. At least my conscience will be clear.
— You forget your place, Turner.
— It's right here, between you and Jack.
…the portrait that Basil Hallward had painted of him would be a guide to him through life, would be to him what holiness is to some, and conscience to others, and the fear of God to us all. There were opiates for remorse, drugs that could lull the moral sense to sleep. But here was a visible symbol of the degradation of sin. Here was an ever-present sign of the ruin men brought upon their souls.
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,
And that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all.
Pickering: — Have you no morals, man?
Doolittle: — Can't afford them, Governor.
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.
— When I am Queen... I promise... to act as my conscience dictates.
— Well, do not think to be Queen at all!