Antiwar-movement Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion”

— Lynn Crilly

“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“By what psychoanalyst friends tell me, in the field of the emotional subconscious, the emotional resistances to be overcome are no longer the ones…

— Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

“Unreasonable self-criticism represents a form of self-hatred and fear.”

— Bryant McGill

“I believe that a lot of the sociopath’s traits such as charm, manipulation, lying, promiscuity, chameleonism, mask wearing, and lack of empathy are largely…

— M.E. Thomas

“A defensive insensitivity that refuses to acknowledge the sufferings of those with whom we disagree is far too often where this obsession with persecution…

— Candida R. Moss

“Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind. 'Seeking the Heart of…

— Joseph Goldstein

“One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgment, and love to revel in our righteous outrage, is that it spares…

— Tim Kreider

“For Persons are selves and, in one respect at least, I was now a Not- self, simultaneously perceiving and being the Not-self of the…

— Aldous Huxley

“A person with internalized shame believes he is inherently flawed, inferior and defective.Such a feeling is so painful that defending scripts (or strategies) are…

— John Bradshaw

“For me, the step from impotence to the power of the weak is more important than another transition that many of us attempt again…

— Dorothee Soelle

“Guilt is like a sore, endlessly fascinating, and the guilty party feels compelled to examine it and pick at it, so that it never…

— Stephen King