Our phones are beginning to take on the roles of conscience-surrogates, father-confessors, spokesmen for our prefrontal cortexes.
Underlying the anarchic fantasy is the moral earnestness that earned Grass the role of "conscience of his generation".
Among Western religious groups, the Society of Friends (or Quakers) places particular emphasis on the role of conscience in apprehending and responding through conduct to the "Inner Light" of God.
The MP for Southwark and Bermondsey has long had the unenviable, if self-appointed, role of "conscience of the Liberal Democrats"; the keeper of the party's social democratic flame.
But the lessons he drew from his experience, and the manner in which he voiced the sufferings of three generations of Soviet victims in powerful novels such as One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward, and The First Circle that secured for him the role of conscience of the nation.
The years of the King James translation were also those of the first stage productions of "Othello," "Volpone," "King Lear" and "The Tempest," none of these being exactly free of reference to the crisis of authority and the role of conscience.
These were also creative conspiracies meant to raise large questions about our personal responsibility for, and the role of conscience in, our world.
Now 92, Mr. Schmidt plays the public role of national conscience and eminence.
"It restores the role of personal conscience and reminds pastors to meet people where they are.
As her mother faded into the background in the role of national conscience, Ms. Aquino became more prominent.
Almost two minutes in, Lamar's voice rises, playing the role of his conscience: "Open your mind up and listen to me, Kendrick".
