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Conscience money   /kˈɑnʃəns mˈəni/   Listen
Conscience money

noun
1.
Payment made voluntarily to reduce guilt over dishonest dealings.






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"Conscience money" Quotes from Famous Books



... real moral responsibility until everyone knows that his deeds are irrevocable, and that his life depends on his usefulness. Hitherto, alas! humanity has never dared face these hard facts. We frantically scatter conscience money and invent systems of conscience banking, with expiatory penalties, atonements, redemptions, salvations, hospital subscription lists and what not, to enable us to contract-out of the moral code. Not content with the old scapegoat and sacrificial lamb, we deify human saviors, and ...
— Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara • George Bernard Shaw



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