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What does conscience mean?
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conscience

The ability to feel whether what you're doing is right or wrong. Even though he stole things, he had some conscience: he didn't kill anyone.

conscience

motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions conformity to one's own sense of right conduct a person of unflagging conscience a feeling of shame when you do something immoral he has no conscience about his cruelty

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Simple sentences

A clear conscience is an extraordinarily soft pillow.
Some people lack conscience.
My conscience is clear but yours is apparently not.
Do you have the conscience to do such a thing?
My conscience is clear.
For the first time in my life, I felt a pang of conscience, but there was no other way out.
His conscience suddenly awoke in him.
He felt the pangs of conscience.
He felt the pricks of conscience.
She had a clear conscience.
His conscience stung him.
Don't obtain wealth at the expense of your conscience.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Language creates conscience.
Conscience grows from language, so be careful about what you write or translate in here.
I have a guilty conscience about that.
A good conscience is a soft pillow.
His conscience pricked him.
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
He did not have any qualm of conscience.
We can run away from everything, except from our conscience.

Movie subtitles

Oh conscience!
Jesus Christ, if we're gonna lead together, let's lead together, which means you can't buy a building for you for your conscience.
It's a little late to develop a guilty conscience. - I don't think.
Would you like to clear your conscience?
This man must examine his conscience.
Remorse Downstairs, an untroubled conscience.
I can't die with all those lives on my conscience!
I cannot go before God with so many deaths on my conscience and so much blood on my hands!
My conscience is clear.
I've got a conscience, Denham.
You really feel conscience-stricken about King Kong, don't you?
Not a very nice thing to have on your conscience.
You know, M. Duvalle, my conscience is beginning to bother me.
I will remind the jury of the easy habit of putting on foreigners events that disturb our conscience.
They're ALL without conscience!
Your untimely death might have disturbed my conscience.
Your conscience, apparently, is not going to be disturbed this time.
Your conscience is quite clear.
But I've got a little conscience left.
I've got a conscience, Denham. I can't send a pretty girl such as you ask on a job like this without telling her what to expect.
Well, if there is any trouble, I hope you'll remember you're to blame. Not a very nice thing to have on your conscience.
It's a fearful thing to send a man's soul to perdition. but I am bound by my conscience. and my love of my king to deal out justice.
It is, ladies and gentlemen, the confession of a tortured conscience. Listen.
To clear my conscience before death, I hereby confess to having opened Lieutenant van Hauen's sealed orders.
My conscience has been bothering me.
This dishonest man. Would be troubled by the disapproval of his own conscience.
My conscience refuses.
Sure. A guilty conscience.
I must appeal to your social conscience.
Salve your conscience and we will forget about it.
And when I'm dead on the altar of my country, I hope your conscience irks you.
Don't ease your conscience. telling her things that make no difference now.
If I but follow the dictates of my conscience.
That he leave it to the dictates of my conscience.
They're haunted by conscience, not by the calcified bones of old Matthew Maule.
Your conscience will tell you.

News and current affairs

After all, corporations don't have a conscience; it is only the conscience of those who run the corporation, and as America's recent corporate scandals have made all too clear, conscience often takes a backseat to profits.
More recently, oil companies have demonstrated little conscience in providing money that feeds guerrilla movements--so long as their own interests are preserved.
If corporations had a conscience, they would act, without being forced to do so: they would estimate their profit from the Apartheid system and pay it back to the country, with interest.
So far, there appears to be no rush to make amends in South Africa, and, as elsewhere, the evidence is meager that the corporate conscience runs very deep.
For the first three years of his first-born son William's life, Darwin observed him with the practiced eye of a naturalist, recording developments as diverse as his ability to follow a candle with his eyes to the first manifestations of conscience.
Indeed, the committee entered in the sphere of moral conscience by stating that anyone who does not adhere to a positive moral evaluation of homosexuality is unfit to serve as a European commissioner.
Alas, the Greek Treuhand remains an abomination, and it should be a stigma on Europe's conscience.
Punishment is ultimately an instrument - not the only one, nor the most important - for restoring a collective moral conscience to societies ravaged by dictatorship.
The great failure of our democratic conscience is in not recognizing this.
So a civilized China is emerging, just as a civilized Eastern Europe once emerged, from the hearts and minds of prisoners of conscience, of people like Liu Xiaobo.
So I know that no theory, no amount of analysis, can free a politician from bouts of soul-searching, from troubling his or her conscience with questions about what is and what is not honest when confronting political choices.
We need the liberal conscience, but without the chronic budget deficits.
I have been to Sudan twice, and, as part of a delegation organized by Conscience International, I also visited the refugee camps in Nyala and El Fasher in Darfur.
The indigenous people are an amalgam of echoes from all the great wars of empire that have troubled the recent American conscience.
For the first time in our ancient history, we Ethiopians have voted our conscience.
In essence, dialectic of attraction and rejection is embedded in our collective conscience as Jews and Europeans.
Israel was born as a state out of the gravest crisis of the European conscience.
Rather than worrying about offending people or losing the next election, she is following the diktat of her conscience.
Until then, Americans need to ask themselves what has coarsened in the national conscience between 1963 and today.
It must not cross it if it wants to preserve its own credibility, and the world's capacity for intervention in similar conscience-shocking cases.
NEW YORK - One of the worst atrocity crime stories of recent decades has barely registered in the world's collective conscience.
His conscience would not allow him to bend to Henry's will.
He was executed in the Tower of London, martyred because of his conscience.
After all, not every politician is widely commended for following his conscience.
Unlike most of Hong Kong's tycoons, who are considered excessively focused on political expedience, Li is viewed as a person of strong conscience and thus worthy of considerable respect.

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