Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a “necessary evil,” it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
Conscience Quotes
To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.
The instinctive sense of the dishonor which money-purchase does to art is so strong that sometimes a man of letters who can pay his way otherwise refuses pay for his work, as Lord Byron did, for a while, from a noble pride, and as Count Tolstoy has tried to do, from a noble conscience.
