Compunction Quotes

12 quotes by 11 authors

Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the… — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction. — James Weldon Johnson
Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction… — Frank Pittman
When your soul is pricked by compunction and gradually changed, it becomes a fountain flowing with rivers of tears and compunction. If any one of… — Symeon the New Theologian
What is the cause that one is hardened, and another readily moved to compunction? Listen! It springs from the will, in the latter case a… — Symeon the New Theologian
I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to… — Robert M. Gates
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. — George Eliot
The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness,… — Elwyn Brooks White
The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be… — Wendell Berry
Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who… — J R Ward
As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to… — Christopher Hitchens
I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God… — Ron Currie Jr.

Who Wrote These Compunction Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 12 Compunction Quotes as follows: