All 22 Uses of
conscience
in
Atlas Shrugged
- There's not a speck of social conscience left in people.†
Chpt 1.2conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
- Has he ever shown any sign of social conscience?†
Chpt 1.8
- To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake-and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem.†
Chpt 1.10
- My conscience is clear.†
Chpt 1.10
- Your conscience bothering you?†
Chpt 1.10
- I'm afraid Thanksgiving is a holiday only for those who have a clear conscience.†
Chpt 2.4
- You can't be hard on a man who needs you, it will prey on your conscience for the rest of your life.†
Chpt 2.4
- You wouldn't want to give support to the widespread impression that you are a man devoid of social conscience, who feels no concern for the welfare of his fellows and works for nothing but his own profit.†
Chpt 2.4
- Save us from the man of clean conscience.†
Chpt 2.6
- I placed pity above my own conscience, and this is the core of my guilt.†
Chpt 2.6
- This is a battle that cannot be fought except with clean hands-because the enemy's sole power is in the sores of one's conscience-and I accepted a code that made me regard the strength of my hands as a sin and a stain.†
Chpt 2.6
- Now, he could expect nothing but punishment, if he tried to follow his conscience.†
Chpt 2.7
- They did not want him to have a conscience any longer.†
Chpt 2.7
- 1, was a professor of sociology who taught that individual ability is of no consequence, that individual effort is futile, that an individual conscience is a useless luxury, that there is no individual mind or character or achievement, that everything is achieved collectively, and that it's masses that count, not men.†
Chpt 2.7
- Do you think the country has time to bother about your opinions, your wishes or your precious little conscience?†
Chpt 2.8
- Their headlines said: "The New Social Conscience,"†
Chpt 2.8
- I would not take it upon my conscience that anything produced by my mind should be used to bring them comfort.†
Chpt 2.9 *
- We had just voted for the new plan and we were in an edgy sort of mood, making too much noise, cheering the people's victory, threatening some kind of unknown enemies and spoiling for a fight, like bullies with an uneasy conscience.†
Chpt 2.10
- I have often wondered at the smugness with which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind-yet what is it that they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands?†
Chpt 3.1
- Just give me a job, and your conscience won't have to bother you about me any longer!†
Chpt 3.5
- ....your conscience!†
Chpt 3.8
- I came here to appeal to your conscience!†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
feeling or judgment of morally right or wrong personal behavior