Collective Guilt Quotes

8 quotes by 7 authors

• 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… — Hannah Arendt
• The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed. — Margaret Thatcher
• There is no such thing as collective guilt. — Kurt Waldheim
• We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility — Thomas Szasz
• Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress,… — Frantz Fanon
• I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children. — Elie Wiesel
• Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to… — Thomas Szasz
• As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another… — Viktor E. Frankl

Who Wrote These Collective Guilt Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 8 Collective Guilt Quotes as follows:

• 2 Collective Guilt Quotes by Thomas Szasz
• 1 Collective Guilt Quote by Hannah Arendt
• 1 Collective Guilt Quote by Margaret Thatcher
• 1 Collective Guilt Quote by Kurt Waldheim
• 1 Collective Guilt Quote by Frantz Fanon
• 1 Collective Guilt Quote by Elie Wiesel
• 1 Collective Guilt Quote by Viktor E. Frankl