Guilt Quotes - Page 29

Whenever my country has something bad happening I feel guilty for not being there. It's weird.

There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who had to take it for her Ph.D. They told her to write an essay in Early Anglo-Saxon on any-subject-of-her-own-choosing. “Which is all very well,” she said bitterly, “but the only essay subject you can find enough Early Anglo-Saxon words for is ‘How to Slaughter a Thousand Men in a Mead Hall’.

The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause.

You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.

Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming

Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.

Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.

Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

You want a bit of life before it's all over. It takes all the guilt away.

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I cant say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I dont do it, it plagues me.

What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable, we may not inquire because to inquire is to make the horrors an object of discussion, even if the horrors themselves are not questioned, instead of accepting them as something in the face of which we can only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt. Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt? To what purpose?

guilt is a pollutant and we don't need any more of it in the world.

We were not born with guilt nor obligation. When you give in to guilt, you endorse it.