America freedom Quote by C. S. Lewis

No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.

— William Gurnall

Possible issue of the conscience: today, which shall be my torment?

— Mariana Fulger

Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut…

— George Sand

...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to…

— Lionel Shriver

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We pursue whatever we pursue out of torment — a need for torment. Our very quest for salvation is a torment, the subtlest, the…

— Emil M. Cioran

Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

— Edwin Louis Cole

No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right…

— Charlaine Harris

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

— John Calvin

I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure…

— Swami Vivekananda

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński