Guilt Quotes - Page 27

Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.

Guilt was imputed and corruption was conveyed

You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.

The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or honesty; dejected eyes confessing, to most judgments, guilt or folly.

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world

They wanted to 'radiofy' what I was doing. I was also in a position where I was compromised. I was much younger and maybe it is because I am Irish but there was a guilt factor when the record company pays you a lot of money, you feel obliged.

This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.

The villager, born humbly and bred hard, Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, In action simply just, in conscience clear, By guilt untainted, undisturb'd by fear, His means but scanty, and his wants but few, Labor his business, and his pleasure too, Enjoys more comforts in a single hour Than ages give the wretch condemn'd to power.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.

I was brought up as a Catholic. I've got A-level guilt.

Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.

Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.

I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.

Write down what you feel guilty about. Now, with the biggest, reddest marker you can find, cross it out-delete it.

Nobody becomes guilty by fate.