Connie Nielsen

You love your child, and you want to protect your child more than anything on this planet, and yet, by the time they're 17, 18, they're going to step into this world, and that world will not feel the same compunction, necessarily, toward your daughter.

Danish Actress

Robert M. Gates

I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position. And it didn't have to look over its shoulder because our economy was so strong.

American Politician

B. R. Ambedkar

The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.

Indian Politician

Jane Hawking

Stephen could be highly critical of people other than his closest relatives... He considered my friends to be easy victims and had no compunction in monopolizing the conversation at parties with his controversial opinions.

English Author

Frank Pittman

Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.

American Psychologist

Mark Pellegrino

Evolutionary science kind of bears that out: When species are rivals and competing for space and resources, the superior one wins. Nature has no compunction about that; it just is.

American Actor

Mike D

I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-founded.

American Musician

George Eliot

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

British Author

Compunction often relates to the guilt that influences decisions or actions.

Guilt-Driven Action

It also denotes regret felt after performing a wrongful act.

Regret Aftermath

The word highlights a person's moral struggle before or after doing something wrong.

Moral Dilemma

This meaning of compunction is more common in literary texts and may sound old-fashioned.

Literary Use

Compunction can imply a physical sensation, like a sting of conscience.

Physical Sensation

It often acts as a stimulus poking at one’s consciousness to do something.

Stimulus to Act

 native plants of a certain kind so you remove those native plants you remove those bees and the more we affect our environment by building on it or moving into agriculture we just naturally have lost a big chunk of bee populations the main human compunction is to neat and

Compunction

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Regret Aftermath

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