pangs of conscience

Just as important, the ethos governing professional circles effectively shields their members from pangs of conscience.

So the best way to keep them from feeling pangs of conscience over his violent methods is to remind them of why they backed him in the first place: They want him to oppress people they don't like — even if it means violence.

She has the ear of the GOP base and is able to keep the pressure high on McCarthy to stick with the fascist agenda, and not let those momentary pangs of conscience sway him.

You have no fears, from your conduct, of the pains of imprisonment, nor do you suffer from the pangs of conscience.

She and her colleagues had made a "very hard choice," Albright said, and the fact that they presumably had to overcome pangs of conscience about causing enormous harm — and had not given into them like a bunch of softies — made it the moral choice.