Guilt Quotes - Page 19

I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.

How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.

There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular forms by which the guilt or innocence of accused persons is determined.

Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent.

We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.

Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

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.

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

Not One Tiny Slice of that Guilt will Do Anything to Change a Single Thing in the Past

There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it.

A poor American feels guilty at being poor, but less guilty than an American rentier who has inherited wealth but is doing nothingto increase it; what can the latter do but take to drink and psychoanalysis?

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

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.

As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me.

I used to feel guilty about owning a console.

Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.

You don’t have to be at every volleyball game. We can’t guilt ourselves.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.