“A typical sociopath never kills anybody and doesn’t look like Charles Manson—they look like you and me and everybody else. You’re not looking for someone who’s recognizably evil or scary-looking, but rather someone who looks normal.”— Martha Stout, interviewmagazine.com
“Sociopaths are just like everybody else in that some of them are really brilliant, some of them are really stupid, and most of them are somewhere in between.”— Martha Stout, interviewmagazine.com
“So if you don’t have a conscience, what is your behavior like? Apparently, if you don’t have a conscience, if you don’t really . . . love, then the only thing that’s left for you is the game—it’s about controlling things.”— Martha Stout, interviewmagazine.com
“Okay, the central trait of sociopathy is a complete lack of conscience, which is very difficult for most people to get their heads around, because those of us who do have a conscience can’t really imagine what it would be like if we didn’t. Most people think that deep down everybody has a conscience…”— Martha Stout, interviewmagazine.com
“I have a clear conscience. I sleep well. I feel good helping others, regardless of whether that's with big things or small things. I look at life differently ever since I became a father.”— Cristiano Ronaldo, independent.co.uk
“Conscience has an unmistakable stink to it, sort of like raw onions and morning breath. But a lie stinks even more when it’s coming from someone who isn’t used to lying. It’s more like rotten eggs and horse shit.”— Billy Kennedy, Frank Underwood, Kevin Spacey, imdb.com
“Come on, man, I know Sam, OK, better than anyone. He's got more of a conscience than I do. I mean, the guy feels guilty surfing the Internet for porn.”— Raelle Tucker, Dean Winchester, Jensen Ackles, imdb.com
“There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.”— Stokely Carmichael, successories.com
“Let it, then, be henceforth proclaimed to the world, that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.”— John Tyler, en.wikiquote.org
“All I have to do is keep my spirit, feelings and conscience like a sheet of blank paper, and let the Spirit and power of God write upon it what He pleases. When He writes, I will read; but if I read before He writes, I am very likely to be wrong.”— Brigham Young, goodreads.com
“I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, en.wikiquote.org
“The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.”— Rod Serling, books.google.com
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”— John Milton, amazon.com
“Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repai…”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com