Guilt Quotes - page 2

For someone admitting guilt she sounded remarkably void of repentance. (Alastair Reynolds)
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. View quote
Thomas Szasz
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. View quote
William Shakespeare
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted. View quote
Franz Kafka
We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. View quote
Martha Beck
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt. View quote
Edna O'Brien
Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught. View quote
Elin Hilderbrand
Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue. View quote
John Shelby Spong
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt. (Kenneth Lee Pike)
Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them. View quote
Germaine Greer
When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the guilt and hostility which accompany repressed emotional powers, one might pinch oneself to realize that one is reading works written in the last century and not some new contemporary psychological analysis. View quote
Rollo May
He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't. View quote
Valerie Solanas
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. View quote
Horace Mann
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief. View quote
Dave Grohl
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. View quote
Ayn Rand
As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons. View quote
Viktor Frankl
The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves. View quote
Stephen Hawking
To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged. View quote
W. H. Auden
Merciful death, how you love your precious guilt. (Anne Rice)
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other. View quote
E. M. Forster
How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime. View quote
Ian McEwan
The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South. View quote
Susan B. Anthony