6 sentences with 'conscience'
Example sentences and phrases with the word conscience and other words derived from it.
• « On the one hand, both my wife and I have a nagging conscience that we're spending too much time at work; on the other hand, we're afraid the girls will get lost and disappear if we're not always looking out for them. »
• « Acting according to the dictates of one's conscience, speaking the truth and trying to conduct oneself as a good citizen even under conditions that degrade the dignity of citizenship, may lead nowhere; perhaps it does. What will certainly lead nowhere is to calculate whether or not this attitude will lead anywhere. »
• « -The look he gave us revealed the most dreadful hatred," one of them told me. There was no trace of human conscience in it. »
• « Man's only guide is his conscience, and the only protection for his future memory is the righteousness and sincerity of his actions. It is very unwise to go through life without this shield of righteousness and sincerity, for we are so often outwitted in our aspirations and in our calculations. But with this shield we will always march in the ranks of honour, regardless of the designs of fate. »
• « Believe it or not, one evening, after having had enough to put his conscience on hold, he left a local bar and was never seen again, either in the vicinity or on the face of the earth. »
• « The Catholic Church invented Freud two thousand years ago, what a psychologist does is no different from what a priest does in confession. And what the Church did not discover, Shakespeare did with his remarkable intuition four hundred years ago. The ghost of Richard III, the ghost of Hamlet's father is the voice of his conscience. »