Guilt Quotes - Page 9

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation to deny it. Something politicians couldn't do. Honesty, the courage for honesty. With others and yourself.

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

Theres no guilt in eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.

You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

The only shame is to have none.

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.

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.

Had Adam tenderly reproved his wife, and endeavored to lead her to repentance instead of sharing in her guilt, I should be much more ready to accord to man that superiority which he claims; but as the facts stand disclosed by the sacred historian, it appears to me that to say the least, there was as much weakness exhibited by Adam as by Eve. They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time

One is often guilty by being too just.

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free - indeed, sanctimonious - way for "progressives" to be racists.

I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other peoples best interests.

So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt.

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.