...that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals... - Marquis de Sade
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. - George Eliot
The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986) - Wendell Berry