Compunction Quotes
12 quotes by 11 authors
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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
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It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.
— James Weldon Johnson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
— George Eliot
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: