Guilt Quotes
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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.
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Out, damned spot! Out, I say!
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One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.
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We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.
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A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.
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To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence of their spirit - we're closing our hearts, deflecting a miracle and causing our own inevitable suffering.
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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.
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All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.
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Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause.
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I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
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In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance. So no ingredient is ever off-limits. Rather, all of the recipes here follow my Usually-Sometimes-Rarely philosophy. Notice there is no Never.
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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.
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The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.
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But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex; rather, we are talking about the mechanics of sex. Science has replaced religion as the authority; and science is a more formidable arbiter. Medicine knows how to scare even those who scoff at religion. Compared with a diagnosis, what's a mere sin? We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.
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Most of the White people I talk to either have not thought about their race and so don't feel anything, or have thought about it and felt guilt and shame. These feelings of guilty and shame are part of the hidden costs of racism.
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Do you not know that you are Eve? The judgment of God upon this sex lives on in this age; therefore, necessarily the guilt should live on also. You are the gateway of the devil; you are the one who unseals the curse of that tree, and you are the first one to turn your back on the divine law; you are the one who persuaded him whom the devil was not capable of corrupting; you easily destroyed the image of God, Adam. Because of what you deserve, that is, death, even the Son of God had to die.
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He that's ungrateful, has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.
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Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.
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Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a human feeling, a sign that I was still attached to the same world that other men lived in.
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It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.
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Because of Jesus Christ, peace can replace guilt. Healthy relationships can be restored. Addictions can be overcome.
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If I want to make the first move, I want to go after something in my life, I should be able to do that without shame, guilt, or blame.
