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Guilt Quotes Innocence is the weakest defense. Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.
Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
Shame is closely related to guilt, but there is a key qualitative difference. No audience is needed for feelings of guilt, no one else need know, for the guilty person is his own judge. Not so for shame. The humiliation of shame requires disapproval or ridicule by others. If no one ever learns of a
misdeed there will be no shame, but there still might be guilt. Of course, there may be both. The distinction between shame and guilt is very
important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish to relieve guilt may motivate a confession, but the wish to
avoid the humiliation of shame may prevent it.
Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
Guilt soon learns to lie.
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.
Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.
To take upon oneself not punishment, but guilt - that alone would be godlike.
Some material things make my life more enjoyable; many, however, would not. I like having an expensive private plane, but owning a half-dozen homes would be a burden. Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.
My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest. Both my children and I won what I call the ovarian lottery. (For starters, the odds against my 1930 birth taking place in the U.S. were at least 30 to 1. My being male and white also removed huge obstacles that a majority of Americans then faced.) My luck was accentuated by my living in a market system that sometimes produces distorted results, though overall it serves our country well. Ive worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions. In short, fates distribution of long straws is wildly capricious.
The reaction of my family and me to our extraordinary good fortune is not guilt, but rather gratitude. Were we to use more than 1% of my claim checks on ourselves, neither our happiness nor our well-being would be enhanced. In contrast, that remaining 99% can have a huge effect on the health and welfare of others. That reality sets an obvious course for me and my family: Keep all we can conceivably need and distribute the rest to society, for its needs. My pledge starts us down that course.
All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong
Regret, which is guilt without the neurosis, enables us ... to move forward instead of back.
Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves
For socialists, not just the wealth, but the guilt, must be redistributed
Guilt is always jealous
Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing
Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible to apply
What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests
It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent
Successful guilt is the bane of society
Guilt is regret for what weíve done.
Regret is guilt for what we didnít do.
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