“Unless, as human beings, we come not only to accept but to openly rejoice in our fundamental and inescapable nature as predators,… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“Here’s what’s interesting—especially for those who automatically think, You should feel like a terrible friend! or A little shame will help you… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
They wanted to 'radiofy' what I was doing. I was also in a position where I was compromised. I was much younger… — Damien Rice Copy Share Image
It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Dogmatic religion has been used to fantastic effect over thousands of years to fuel and exploit emotions like fear and guilt, and… — David Icke Copy Share Image
I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The cases described in this section (The Fear of Being) may seem extreme, but I have become convinced that they are not… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“People, in general, tend to project onto others their own state of mind. Well-meaning people inevitably assume other people are well meaning.… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“Archer tries not to think of his own state of purity, physically unsullied, yet now spiritually beyond redemption, his thoughts plagued by… — John T. Fuller Copy Share Image
Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Toxically shamed people tend to become more and more stagnant as life goes on. They live in a guarded, secretive and defensive… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage concepts of sin has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“Our need to be "greater than" or "less than" has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon… — Maureen Brady Copy Share Image
One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
One thing was absolutely certain—it was a given for Kazuo. Although he might not have particularlyrealized it, or more appropriately, perhaps because… — Koushun Takami Copy Share Image
...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds… — Elizabeth Carter Copy Share Image
“There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuilding his character, has done… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“According to Dr. Hartling, in order to deal with shame, some of us move away by withdrawing, hiding, silencing ourselves, and keeping… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Even with the very best of intentions, even with the ambition of making the world a better place, when we cast judgment… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
“He was not going to move on until she let go of him, of her guilt. And that was one thing she… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t ready for the guilt of being a parent. I was raised Catholic, so guilt is a familiar friend. Guilt is… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt -- the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The first chapters of the Bible tell us of the sin of man. The guilt of that sin had rested upon every… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“to have poor shame tolerance. They learned in childhood to manage feelings of inadequacy by adopting unhealthy coping mechanisms to forestall or… — Bandy X Lee Copy Share Image
“The Adversary, of course, simply wants them to lay down their sins, guilt and all, and follow Him. But this type holds… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t very well make a special delivery to the door of the constabulary now could I? And he’d have made the… — Ella J. Fraser Copy Share Image
Food became the antidote for feelings of guilt, sadness, and anger. ... Food is a resolution to controversy; food is rescue. We… — Rose Quiello Copy Share Image
Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
[Y]ou have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin. When you are pursuing love, running toward Christ, you do… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Guilt? It's this mechanism we use to control people. It's an illusion. It's a kind of social control mechanism -- and it's… — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
![“[Y]ou have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin. When you are pursuing love, running toward Christ, you do not have opportunity to wonder, *Am I doing this right?* or *Did I serve enough this week?* When you are running toward Christ, you are freed up to serve, love, and give thanks…” quote by Francis Chan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d57/francis-chan-548_christ_y-ou-have-to-stop-loving-and-pursuing-ch_284124.jpg)
![“A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the guilt [of the defendant] was presumed by the judges [due to the nature of the charge], and paederasty became the crime of those to whom no crime could be imputed.” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7c7/edward-gibbon-710_children_a-sentence-of-death-and-infamy-was-often_786917.png)
