conscience

"I am not going to have on my conscience the sentencing of a man for so long that he has little chance of leaving prison alive."

The text of the measure was unenforceable, but the dead words remained in the California Constitution, a dead weight on our collective conscience.

Exercising conscience in the most humane sense isn’t about feeling personal virtue.

After his sacking, Vilda said he has a "clear conscience" and that personal criticisms were "unfair".

MPs will get a free vote on the issue, meaning they can choose based on their own conscience rather than having to follow the party line.