Quotes About Compunction

#1. The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.

B.R. Ambedkar

#2. 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 who would eat you without compunction if I were hungry.

Ron Currie Jr.

#3. It's amazing [ ... ] how perfectly honest people who would starve rather than steal sixpence, will steal books without compunction.

Jill Paton Walsh

#4. She's sociopathic. She will have no moral compunction in doing whatever is in her interests. It's as simple as that.

Alexander McCall Smith

#5. If my work is pornography, so what? I don't have any moral compunction about pornography. Any feelings I have about it are purely stylistic ... I don't see why it should be excluded as a serious subject.

David Salle

#6. The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

George Eliot

#7. Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.

Walter Savage Landor

#8. compunction, and her cigarette dangles from her scarlet-tipped hand. She hasn't

Beatriz Williams

#9. 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 sustain that position. And it didn't have to look over its shoulder because our economy was so strong.

Robert M. Gates

#10. He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal.

Jane Austen

#11. That tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals ...

Marquis De Sade

#12. When I made some observation about linguistic affinity and heredity and Freud - so obvious, I worried that I sounded like a philistine - Ana gave a startled, gargled laugh. Her already enormous eyes grew even wider. And I was immediately engulfed in a warm, prickly compunction.

Alena Graedon

#13. 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 were born without a conscience?
V: I beg your pardon?

J.R. Ward

#14. I have never forgotten how the deprivation of work erodes human beings, those not working and those related to them. And from that time on, I loathed an economic that could put a huge part of its workforce on the streets with no compunction.

Herbert Schiller

#15. So perhaps the best resource is to meet everything passively, to make yourself an inert mass, to stare at others with the eyes of an animal, to feel no compunction, with your own hand to throttle down whatever ghostly life remains in you.

Franz Kafka

#16. It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

James Weldon Johnson

#17. But shame, for Mannering, was an emotion that attended only failure; he could not be made to feel compunction if he had not, in his own estimation, failed.

Eleanor Catton

#18. 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 treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)

Wendell Berry

#19. 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 over being violent to women, children, and one another.

Frank Pittman

#20. I admired her lack of compunction, the courage of her bad manners, the energy of simple rage. Throwing a bag of spaghetti had a simplicity to it, a recklessness, a careless grandeur. It got things over with. I was a long way, then, from being able to do anything like it myself.

Margaret Atwood

#21. 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 be burned alive or dismembered in the street.

Christopher Hitchens

#22. I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#23. Bill Maher is anything but an impartial host. He sucks up to Hollywood liberals because A) he needs to get them back on the show, B) he usually agrees with them, and C) they tend to be wildly ignorant.

Jonah Goldberg

#24. Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Milton Friedman

#25. To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.

Radhanath Swami

#26. This book is dedicated to the people of America
strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched.

Paul Johnson

#27. Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached

David Bryant

#28. their them-and-us attitude

No One

#29. The shit's gonna splatter. Start buggin' yo.

Jeaniene Frost

#30. Crashing could not be more inconsiderate to a host. It is a negative act because hosts likely have a particular plan for the event, an intention to move guests' attitudes in a certain direction.

Letitia Baldrige