Guilt Quotes

1189 Guilt quotes by 844 unique authors

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set… — Gilbert Parker
The only shame is to have none. — Blaise Pascal
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture. — Steven Pinker
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. — Plautus
What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you… — Joseph Prince
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. — Ayn Rand
The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into… — Tom Robbins
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.' — Theodore Roosevelt
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the… — Friedrich Schiller
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. — William Shakespeare
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have… — Walter Scott
My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers… — Anna Sewell
My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve… — William Shatner
One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less,… — Jane Smiley
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. — Susan Sontag
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier? — John Steinbeck
I carry lots of guilt. — Rod Stewart
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
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and… — Eckhart Tolle
You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the… — Eddie Vedder
Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt. — Don Van Vliet
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. — Voltaire
I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and… — Mark Wahlberg

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