Guilt Quotes
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Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.
Penelope Leach
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By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.
William Godwin
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Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
Willard Gaylin
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Guilt, remorse. It's what separates us from the animals.
Arthur Mitchell
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Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.
R. C. Sproul, Jr.
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We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There's only one difference between Jews and Catholics. Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it.
Elayne Boosler
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Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.
Sarah Zettel
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God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.
William Cullen Bryant
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It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove you're client's guilt.
Anderson Cooper
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Grace gives us the power to live, and mercy keeps us free from guilt, condemnation, and shame.
John Bevere
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I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.
Kevin Kline
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I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.
Janet Jackson
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Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear.
P. C. Cast
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Love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can't stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they'll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That's love, you see. It is redemptive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.
Confucius