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Is it unnatural that I should have absorbed these things and have become what I am today, a treacherous, degenerate, brutal, human savage, devoid of all decent feeling, without conscience, morals, pity, sympathy, principle or any single good trait? Why am I what I am?

— Carl Panzram, via www-rohan.sdsu.edu

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In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings. I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies Larcenys, [sic] arsons and last but not least I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. for all of these things I am not the least bit sorry. I have no conscience so that does not worry me. I don’t believe in Man, God nor devil. I hate the whole damed [sic] human race including myself.

— Carl Panzram, Lustmord: The Writings and Artifacts of Murderers

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The ultimate manipulation is to kill someone, and sociopathy is murderous in a psychological sense—there’s a kind of soul-murder going on.

— Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door - Interview Magazine

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Most of us have some kind of positive goal in mind when we think of winning. A sociopath thinks in terms of successfully manipulating someone into doing something that he or she would not have done otherwise. That can be a small thing or a tremendous thing, but the point for the sociopath is to win, to make sure that this person does what they’re trying to coerce him or her into doing. It can be as disgusting and as simple as making a child cry. Or it can be as complex as making your wife feel bad about herself.

— Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door - Interview Magazine

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Well, the perfect victim, from the sociopath’s point of view, is the person who is smart enough and capable enough to do him some good in the world and who is also fun to manipulate. How much fun is it to manipulate someone who is stupid and incompetent? Another good person to manipulate is someone of high character, because that is also fun for the sociopath.

— Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door - Interview Magazine

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Another lynchpin is dishonesty. Lying for the sake of lying. Lying just to see whether you can trick people. And sometimes telling larger lies to get larger effects. The other thing that needs to be stressed is that sociopaths are often extremely charming. They are people who are better than you and me at charming people, at being charismatic.

— Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door - Interview Magazine

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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, The Sociopath Next Door - Interview Magazine

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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, The Sociopath Next Door - Interview Magazine

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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, The Sociopath Next Door - Interview Magazine

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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, and it turns out that’s just not true.

— Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door - Interview Magazine

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We are a country with a conscience.

— John McCain, Sen. John McCain warns Rex Tillerson: 'We are a country with a conscience'

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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, Ronaldo compares himself to God and claims arrogance made him the best

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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.

— Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey), House of Cards, Season 4: Chapter 46

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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.

— Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles), Supernatural, Season 2: Hunted

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There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

— Stokely Carmichael, via www.successories.com

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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, Funeral oration for Thomas Jefferson

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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, A quote by Brigham Young

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The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

— John Calvin, Through God's Eyes: Finding Peace and Purpose in a Troubled World

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Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks, 1914-1916

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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

— Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 2

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I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

— David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

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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, via en.wikiquote.org

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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, As I Knew Him

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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

— John Milton, Areopagitica

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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 repair the wrong.

— Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.

— Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories (New Directions Paperbook)

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If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

— Mohamed Elbaradei, Mohamed ElBaradei

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Reality denied comes back to haunt.

— Philip K Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

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A quiet conscience makes one strong!

— Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

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Conscience is just the voices of the dead trying to save us from our own damnation.

— Christopher Johansen (Robert Clothier), The X-Files, Season 3: Piper Maru

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I'm the first kid to write of hearts, lies, and friends. And I am sorry my conscience called in sick again.

— Fall Out Boy, I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy And All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me (From Under The Cork Tree)

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It makes me sick that these things happen. It makes me sick that there are people out there that don’t have a conscience. That don’t care. That are just heartless…But seeing people come home…I think it’s proof that there are miracles

— Elizabeth A. Smart, Kidnapping Victim Elizabeth Smart Shares the Best Advice She’s Ever Received With TheBlaze

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Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

— William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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Sometimes doing what's right for your conscience is not always the most popular decision, but I can guarantee that in retrospect you won't regret the choice you made.

— Tyler Oakley, Binge

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“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.

— Frederick Lewis Donaldson, A sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson

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But how are we to determine what is said in the talk that belongs to this kind of discourse? What does the conscience call to him to whom it appeals? Taken strictly, nothing. The call asserts nothing, gives no information about world-events, has nothing to tell. Least of all does it try to set going a 'soliloquy' in the Self to which it has appealed. 'Nothing' gets called to this Self, but it has been summoned to itself—that is, to its ownmost potentiality-for-Being.

— Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

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