Guilt Quotes - Page 25

We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.

But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!

In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

Do not pour guilt into someone's psyche, and don't let anyone tamper with your conscience.

It doesn't promote your life to reduce unearned guilt... You should get rid of that guilt. It's unearned. You don't deserve it. So when we guilt businessmen into giving, it's not in their self-interest.

I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.

If mythic violence is lawmaking, divine violence is law-​destroying; if the former sets boundaries, the latter boundlessly destroys them; if mythic violence brings at once guilt and retribution, divine power only expiates; if the former threatens, the latter strikes; if the former is bloody, the latter is lethal without spilling blood

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.

Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.

There is unspeakable joy... for the person who knows release from guilt and the relief of forgiveness.

So I would only feel guilt if I misled somebody who was terrible.

Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.

The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its participants. Revolving around it are issues most decisive to thought reform's outcome.

Guilt simply says that you are a sinner. And the feeling of shame simply shows you that you need not be a sinner, that you are meant to be a saint. If you are a sinner it is only because of your unconsciousness; you are not a sinner because the society follows a certain morality and you are not following it.

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.

The cross of Christ is the all-sufficient ground for the salvation of sinners. It claims to be sturdy enough to support the whole weight of our guilt all by itself. Therefore, to boast in the cross properly at all is to boast in the cross alone.