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“The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.”

Way Self Hate Silence Doors Creatures Conscience Punishment Pity Guilty Convince Contempt Indifferent Deserving Depraved Wronged Extermination Guilty Conscience

Author:Eric Hoffer

“There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely felt before duty rushes to encase it, anger impossible because one must always be calm and see both sides, pity evaporates in expedients, even grief is felt as a sort of bruised sense of injury, a resentment that one should have grief forced upon one when one has always acted for the best.”

Should Littles Felt Sides Love Is Rooms Grief Impossible Duty Conscience Should Have Calm Pity Injury Resentment Both Sides Bruised

Book:Selected Stories

Source: Selected Stories

“I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor.... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.”

“Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?”

People Persons Made Said Government Christian Young President Taken Personality Conscience Shame Senses Pity Made It Corporations Treasury Psychopathic

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I despised everything that might restrict my forward momentum. She knew that bullets have no conscience. They speed past things and miss their marks as often as they hit them.”

Self Might Past Missing Understood Conscience Mark Speed Pity Bullets Momentum Playwright Despised Self Pity Forward Momentum

Author:James Ellroy

“Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.”

Men Policy Conscience Pity

Author:William Shakespeare

“And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.”

Giving Conscience Letters Give Me Pity

Book:The Chrestomanci Series: Entire Collection

Source: The Chrestomanci Series: Entire Collection

“To the last day of your life, be positive; try to be cheerful. Even at the very end, don't think, "I am finished." Instead of pitying yourself, you should be thinking, "O ye who are left on this desolate shore still to mourn and deplore, it is I who pity you." Death will not give you any trouble if you have a clear conscience; and if you go with this thought: "Lord, I am in Thy hands."”

“But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?”

Fear Conscience Hot Embrace Pity Pairs Brazen Sorcery

Author:Boris Pasternak