Guilt Quotes

• Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die... The legislation couldn't reform it. Lawmakers won't repeal it. I won't stand for it. I had to act... I am commuting the sentences of all death row inmates.

  

  George Ryan
  • Death
  • Reform
  • Deserves

• We believers do need to be challenged to a life of committed discipleship, but that challenge needs to be based on the gospel, not on duty or guilt. Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Lifetime
  • Gospel
  • Believers

• I carry lots of guilt.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Guilt

• 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
  • Thinks
  • Wickedness
  • Refrain

• We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Forget
  • Guilt
  • Confessed

• We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Today
  • Religious
  • Anxiety

• There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system.

  

  William Booth
  • Mother
  • Culture
  • Tree

• "But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Think
  • Child
  • Prison

• A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Conscience
  • Wicked
  • Frenzy

• All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Hands
  • Shame
  • Arabia

• To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed.

  

  John Calvin
  • Guilt
  • Justify
  • Confirmed

• 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
  • Glory
  • Myth
  • Frontiers

• Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • May
  • Justice
  • Guilty

• He that's ungrateful, has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Guilt
  • Virtues
  • Crimes

• 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.
  • Love
  • Power
  • Person

• Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Cancer
  • Destroy
  • Thief

• I don't have any guilt. Because I grew up Catholic and with so much guilt, I've worked hard at getting rid of it.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Catholic
  • Guilt
  • Worked

• Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Guilt
  • Confession
  • Avoided

• I think subconsciously because of my upbringing, I was very aware of values and morals and that’s why I experienced the occasional guilt with my habits.

  

  Anne Jackson
  • Guilt
  • Habits
  • Upbringing

• 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.
  • May
  • Sin
  • Guilty

• From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Moral
  • Perspective
  • Grief

• If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

  

  John Searles
  • Friends
  • Conscience
  • Guilt

• I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Sin
  • Catholic
  • Guilt

• I don't feel any 'white guilt,' because I had nothing to do with (slavery) whatsoever. I feel shame for my country that it happened and that's why I feel we need to deal with it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Country
  • Why
  • Slavery

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