"It is strange how in some things honest……" — James Weldon Johnson

More Compunction Quotes

This quote is filed under Compunction Quotes, one of 12 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through… — Frank Pittman
• When your soul is pricked by compunction and gradually changed, it becomes a fountain flowing with rivers of tears and… — Symeon the New Theologian
• What is the cause that one is hardened, and another readily moved to compunction? Listen! It springs from the will,… — 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… — 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,… — Elwyn Brooks White
• The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and… — Wendell Berry
• Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or… — J R Ward
• As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those… — Christopher Hitchens
• I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation.… — Ron Currie Jr.

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