Sally Rooney Quotes

I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

In my religion it's actually better to know you're doing wrong and try to improve that wrong than to think philosophically that what you're doing is right and in fact it is wrong.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Parishes can help lift up the moral and human dimension of public issues, calling people to informed participation in the political process.

It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself. For we are all tarred with the same brush and are children of one and the same Creator.

Preach in your own house and to your own company

Each person is his own judge.

Stop blaming the world—look inside!

I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem.

I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.

If you choose to put political expediency and politics ahead of the men and women on the ground, for that, you'll have to answer to yourself. I find it morally reprehensible.

The idea of 'breaking bad' and what that means in terms of the actions and decisions people make, and why they make them - it makes people question themselves in the 'What would I do?' kind of way.

I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying.

The truth needs to explain why you are the way you are, why you did what you did.

Every day I wake up and think: 'Am I part of the problem? Am I helping further entrench the political divide? All the raging mouthpieces of the right that I'm furious with - am I just the same but on the left?' I have no easy answers to that.

Everyone has to be their own critic.

Make up your mind what you want to do, and go and get it. Make sure it is not at the expense of anyone else, though.

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world that is watered-down and hollow. In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue – it's been happening every day for a long time.

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.

To those who say Ted Bundy should burn forever in eternity I would only say, so should I, so should all of us.