Elbert Hubbard Quotes

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.

Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

I always had a sense of where I was going with 'Dark Phoenix.' Jean had the greatest power imaginable... and, how's she going to deal with that?

It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no remorse at that moment for his conduct towards the innocent, true-hearted girl; although his libertine clients had done precisely what he had expected, precisely what he most wished, and precisely what would tend most to his advantage, still he hated them for doing it, from the very bottom of his soul.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.

Oh but I'd pay anything to keep my conscience clean.I'm keeping my eyes on the the exit sign. Steady now.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.

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.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.