"If we cannot be powerful and happy..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard
If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
More by Elbert Hubbard
More on Human Nature
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
“Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
“Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible”
More on Conscience
“I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available.”
“A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.”
“If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.”