In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over… — William Sargant Copy Share Image
Lunch." I said. "Immediately. I'm going to wither away to absolutely nothing. Then you'll be racked with guilt." "I doubt it. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
People who are prone to guilt tend to work harder and perform better than people who are not guilt-prone, and are perceived… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body. — Lee Salk Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures… — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
“He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I really don't know who has it worse: The heartbreaker who guiltily draws the line-- The heartbroken convinced they are cursed-- Or… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“And I began to believe that you could exchange your life, send it back for a different model, and I knew that… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
We are all familiar with the feelings of guilt and shame. They are really bothersome and nagging emotions that dont go away… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Islamic ethics is based on 'limits and proportions,' which means that the answer to an offensive cartoon is a cartoon, not the… — Amir Taheri Copy Share Image
“I never cut my neighbor's throat; My neighbor's gold I never stole; I never spoiled his house and land; But God have… — Marguerite Wilkinson Copy Share Image
He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt over falling… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
A Lesbian who consents to guilt for her sexual preference is her own worst oppressor. She accepts and internalizes prejudices and uses… — Sidney Abbott Copy Share Image
“He didn’t deserve compassion. Sympathy. Not even understanding. He deserved worse, far worse than he had ever been given.” — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I release all feelings of worry and guilt. Throughout life, the two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been done… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“No one taps her deepest gifts through shame, guilt or anger. In fact, if you come from obligation, others smell the sadness… — Tama Kieves Copy Share Image
If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“If seeing her an hour before her last Weak cough into all blackness I could yet Be held by chalk-white walls -… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while morons… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Parents that provide a nonviolent, fostering, strong and steady background for their children assist in impede violence and abuse in their households.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“In the West we are driven by an extreme form of guilt -- if you are not seen to be working like… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“Abuse ambushed my life, I could not love myself truly and could never have a healthy relationship, they were either abused or… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ,… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people of my generation have a certain guilt that, from the Sixties onwards, we started taking package… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image