“The dual moral emotions of empathy and guilt activate the desire to right wrongs of the past and behave better in the… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Guilt can interfere with our desires to move forward, to heal properly and to become a person who has the mental health… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To execute a man we don't need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. It's… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“It was a great fucking time, the short era of disaster euphoria, for nothing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a looming… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that… — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions,… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
“The presence of the inner feeling of emptiness directs our attention to a past experience of guilt and to our inner feeling… — Martha Char Love Copy Share Image
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parents and my father's… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
Where is my guilt? I can regret. I can regret that I made the party film, 'Triumph of the Will,' in 1934.… — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
“On the ration cards of Nazi Germany, there was no listing for punishment, but everyone had to take their turn. For some… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Nobody becomes a writer overnight. Well, I'm sure somebody did, but that person's head probably went all asplodey from paroxysms of joy,… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“If you decide to do without a personal god it's illogical to saddle yourself with a legacy of JudeoChristian sin. That way… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“...stars are dying all the time. Some explode. Some collapse and cave in on themselves. Those ones become black holes. Others get… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“Fear and guilt are the only successful weapons for the herd mentality. I will not be playing by society's rules. And there… — Elena Levon Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Guilt is generally formed when we feel we have done something wrong, upset someone, when we feel responsible for upsetting someone or… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt,… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“How often do we clutch the burdens of our guilt and regrets – or another’s violation in our life – when we… — Sue Augustine Copy Share Image
Intuitive Eaters march to their inner hunger signals, and eat whatever they choose without experiencing guilt or an ethical dilemma. — Evelyn Tribole Copy Share Image
“We are part of what society can't bear to remember. Because if they really think about it, if they really look at… — Barbara Nickless Copy Share Image
Among women, guilt spreads with the rampant fury of bubonic plague. ... I used to feel guilty if the cat had matted fur. — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
“It’s really a rather simple thing to bring balance to my anger. All I need to do is remember that the ‘hand… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of… — Alfred Dreyfus Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the guilty one is not the person who has committed the crime, but the person who has created the possibility for… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
“It's funny how guilty people start to question your spirituality and education only because they have nothing to say that will justify… — J.B. Albano Copy Share Image
“Shame isn't a quiet grey cloud, shame is a drowning man who claws his way on top of you, scratching and tearing… — Kirsty Eagar Copy Share Image
“The frailty of those dark hours during the period of abuse persuades the child to think that they are incapable of causing… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without… — Seth Copy Share Image
I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
Being the first to go to college in my family was a great thing, but it was also a source of guilt.… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image