Guilt Quotes
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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.
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It gave me “the eye”—the fearsome gaze that sheepdogs use to keep their charges in line. But I gave it “the look”—the stare that policemen use to keep members of the public in a state of randomized guilt.
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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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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.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.
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A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.
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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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Out, damned spot! Out, I say!
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[John F. Kennedy] kept a diary and in the White House dictated his thoughts. He felt real guilt at the killing of [Ngo Dinh] Diem, the leader of South Vietnam.
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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 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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I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.
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Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.
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I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
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Insults fade after years of use, becoming blunt like battle-weary blades. Insults rely on probing the open wounds of shame and guilt. She had neither.
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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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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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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.
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Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.
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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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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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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.
