Peter Hitchens Quotes

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to distortion of consciousness and conscience, and hence our actions.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous.

In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.

Have you ever noticed that good people sleep better, but bad people seem to have more fun when they're awake?

Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast.

Conscience is the root of all true courage.

It is impossible to have progress without conscience

Conscience is the pulse of reason

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.