Conscience Quote by Bertrand Russell

“The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. —Bertrand Russell”

— Oliver Benjamin

“Because the mankind very himself is a torturer, he created the concept of hell!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Hell existed in the imagination of those who feared it, because of the guilt and shame they carried with them after death.”

— Andrea Barbosa

“[T]hat his cheating and his bitterness and his cruelty were the revolt of his will ... against a deep-rooted instinct of holiness, against a…

— Somerset Maugham Blanchet

“And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Think (he used to say) of a being who would make a Hell—who would create the human race with the infallible foreknowledge, and therefore…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I must say that I think all this doctrine, that hell-fire is a punishment for sin, is a doctrine of cruelty. It is a…

— Bertrand Russell

“God didn't have to punish him; he'd created his own hell. By himself and for himself.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“Theirs was a bond forged from necessity, hurt, and a shared, intimate understanding of hell.”

— R.F. Kuang

“Leave a man to his own sins, and hell itself surrounds him; only suffer a sinner to do what he wills, and to give…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“We create our own hell, it is the sum of all our decisions - we are not sentenced, we condemn ourselves.”

— Gabrielle Estres

“... it is for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell...”

— Jonathan Edwards