Libba Bray Quotes

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

No matter what I do, I'm hurting someone." - Katniss Everdeen

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

I never meant it," he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it, seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?

I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong.

On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.

There’s got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did.

Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.

I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.