But in another sense, it was something Kira had to clear from her conscience.
He sighed as if a load had been removed from his conscience.
"We have to act from our own conscience," he said.
Until the reach of democracy increases to that extent, we can only hope for guidance from our collective conscience.
These thoughts lifted the weight of guilt from his conscience.
It's clearly satisfying to him, this make-believe liberation from his conscience.
Was it a confession of remorse which thus escaped from this man's conscience?
What had the old man wanted for his people so desperately that he would divorce himself from his own conscience?
Each may be trying to expunge the other from his conscience.
He was still running, it seemed, from his conscience.