Burden Quote by Ernest Becker Download Open image “Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.” — Ernest Becker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Burden Freedom Freedom and responsibility Guilt Regret Responsibility Terrible
We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
To live with a guilt not doing the duty is the worst self punishment. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught. — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway. — Isabelle Holland Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“the characteristics the modern mind prides itself on are precisely those of madness.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“When we are young we are often puzzled by the fact that each person we admire seems to have a different version of what… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt. — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“neurosis as a problem of character and have seen that it can be approached in two ways: as a problem of too much narrowness… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“This is one of the reasons for bigotry and censorship of all kinds over personal morality: people fear that the standard morality will be… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal. In this… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Understanding this, Rank could take a great step beyond Freud. Freud thought that modern man’s moral dependence on another was a result of the… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“The world of human aspiration is largely fictitious and if we do not understand this we understand nothing about man.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me. — Seungri Copy Share Image
Trump's enduring appeal is a resource to be harnessed by the Republican Party, not a burden to be jettisoned. — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
We want to free our citizens from the burden of excessive paper documents in every office. We want paperless transactions. We will set up… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts… — Abby May Alcott Copy Share Image
It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge. — David Blaine Copy Share Image
Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
