All 20 Uses of
conscience
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- Has she a secret conscience-prick at sacrificing her daughter to her son?†
Chpt 1.4conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
- In such cases, 'we overcome our moral feeling if necessary,' freedom, peace, conscience even, all, all are brought into the market.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- I could kill that damned old woman and make off with her money, I assure you, without the faintest conscience-prick," the student added with warmth.†
Chpt 1.6
- They talk of duty, conscience—I don't want to say anything against duty and conscience;—but the point is, what do we mean by them.†
Chpt 1.6
- They talk of duty, conscience—I don't want to say anything against duty and conscience;—but the point is, what do we mean by them.†
Chpt 1.6
- When I heard of all this I wanted to blow him up, too, to clear my conscience, but by that time harmony reigned between me and Pashenka, and I insisted on stopping the whole affair, engaging that you would pay.†
Chpt 2.3
- I simply hinted that an 'extraordinary' man has the right...that is not an official right, but an inner right to decide in his own conscience to overstep...certain obstacles, and only in case it is essential for the practical fulfilment of his idea (sometimes, perhaps, of benefit to the whole of humanity).†
Chpt 3.5
- But if such a one is forced for the sake of his idea to step over a corpse or wade through blood, he can, I maintain, find within himself, in his conscience, a sanction for wading through blood—that depends on the idea and its dimensions, note that.†
Chpt 3.5
- Well, brother, if you are really serious...You are right, of course, in saying that it's not new, that it's like what we've read and heard a thousand times already; but what is really original in all this, and is exclusively your own, to my horror, is that you sanction bloodshed in the name of conscience, and, excuse my saying so, with such fanaticism....That, I take it, is the point of your article.†
Chpt 3.5
- But that sanction of bloodshed by conscience is to my mind...more terrible than the official, legal sanction of bloodshed....†
Chpt 3.5
- But what of his conscience?†
Chpt 3.5
- If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake.†
Chpt 3.5
- You'd be sure to, though....But as for your question, I really don't know what to say, though my own conscience is quite at rest on that score.†
Chpt 4.1
- Secondly, my conscience is perfectly easy; I make the offer with no ulterior motive.†
Chpt 4.1
- If you had anything on your conscience, you certainly ought to insist that you were delirious.†
Chpt 4.5
- And their conscience would prick them: how can we dismiss a man who has hitherto been so generous and delicate?†
Chpt 5.1
- But at last he had suddenly felt the same uneasiness again, as though his conscience smote him.†
Chpt 6.1
- You may think what you like, but I desire now to do all I can to efface that impression and to show that I am a man of heart and conscience.†
Chpt 6.2
- But he judged himself severely, and his exasperated conscience found no particularly terrible fault in his past, except a simple blunder which might happen to anyone.†
Chpt Epil.
- My conscience is at rest.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
feeling or judgment of morally right or wrong personal behavior