Best 1275 quotes in «guilt quotes» category

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

A healthy dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It's what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion.

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

A land of levity is a land of guilt.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!

A Lesbian who consents to guilt for her sexual preference is her own worst oppressor. She accepts and internalizes prejudices and uses them against herself.

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

Allow others to give you loving care. Receive without guilt or apologies.

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!

All too often we're filled with negative and limiting beliefs. We're filled with doubt. We're filled with guilt or with a sense of unworthiness. We have a lot of assumptions about the way the world is that are actually wrong.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested in having more fears and guilt laid on them. They're not interested in more sermons and exhortations. But they are interested in learning about love. How can I be happy? How can I live? How can I taste the marvelous things that the mystics speak of?

Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet.

And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.

Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul - forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world.

An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And though want of suspicion more than want of sense, sometimes leads a man into harm; yet too much suspicion is as bad as too little sense.

An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear.  Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.

A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body.

By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of a Jury of their Peers, they are either convicted, or acquitted. I have some times thought that we Women are hardly dealt by since strictly speaking, we cannot legally be tried by our Peers, for men are not our Peers, and yet upon their breath our guilt or innocence depends— thus are our privileges in this, as in many other respects tyrannically abridged, and we are forced to yield to necessity.

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

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin

Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.

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

By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places — whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest — where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.

Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.