Guilt Quotes
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You see, the thing with adults is that respect is just a word they use to guilt us nonadults into doing what they want us to do.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
The guilt that accompanies mistakes can be washed away.
Boyd K. Packer -
A healthy dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It's what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion.
Ann Dunham -
Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.
Boyd K. Packer -
From the beginning, we failed to overcome Europe's division. The Berlin Wall fell, but invisible walls were moved to the East of Europe. This has led to mutual misunderstandings and assignments of guilt. They are the cause of all crises ever since.
Vladimir Putin -
I try to be sensitive, but the atmosphere I create is very supportive. One overriding premise of the series is that guilt is not heritable. It's good to know about them, but you are not responsible for them. You don't have to apologize for them. It's a process of knowing, and the more you know, the richer the sense of yourself. The firmer your foundation as a human being is
Henry Louis Gates
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To get over the guilt of drinking, take your brandy in milk. This way, it becomes medicinal.
Catherine Cookson -
Because of guilt there is painful diversion; because of greed there is playful diversion; because of grass there is pleasurable diversion.
Eugene J. Martin -
All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.
Cathy Ladman -
...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
Henrik Ibsen -
Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.
Albert Camus -
Do not have regrets. Guilt is a wasted emotion.
Norman Reedus
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In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
Carolyn Heilbrun -
In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance.
Ellie Krieger -
For socialists, not just the wealth, but the guilt must be redistributed.
Andrew Sandlin -
The truth is, sometimes siblings have nothing in common but blood...Sometimes you stay up late at night, thinking things that make you feel like a heartless monster, wishing for something different and then feeling sick with guilt because you know what the cost of "different" would be...There's a difference between having no siblings and having a broken one.
Beth Revis -
Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty.
Cathy Ladman -
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
Jonathan Swift
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Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.
Thomas Sowell -
When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.
Brennan Manning -
We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.
Thomas Harris -
A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.
Ethan Gilsdorf