“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes

“Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.”
Source: Ten Things I Love About You

“Conscience is the most sacred thing among men.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Context: Conscience is the most sacred thing among men. Every man has within him a still small voice, which tells him that nothing on earth can oblige him to believe that which he does not believe. The worst of all tyrannies is that which obliges eighteen-twentieths of a nation to embrace a religion contrary to their beliefs, under penalty of being denied their rights as citizens and of owning property, which, in effect, is the same thing as being without a country.

“Conscience is a God to all mortals.”
Monosticha.

Letter to three students (October 1967) as translated in Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record (1970) edited by Leopold Labedz (1970) “The Struggle Intensifies".

Source: What is Man? (1938), p. 178
Context: Man must be free of it all, of his bad conscience and of the bad salvation from this conscience in order to become in truth the way. Now, he no longer promises others the fulfillment of his duties, but promises himself the fulfillment of man.
On the Lawn at the Villa (l. 14-16) (1980) It is not your job to like me, it is mine.
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