Coalitions Quote by Germaine Greer

Guilt is the mafia of the mind.

— Robert Mandel

The guilts no good, and it only shames us more

— Framing Hanley

Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe…

— Samuel Johnson

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

— Anonymous

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

— Horace Bushnell

“Guilt is an outward expression of self degradation. It is acceptance of one’s culpability, indiscretion, liability, sin, dereliction, and harm without resolving the crime,…

— Deborah Bravandt

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

— Susan Sontag

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very…

— Hannah Arendt

Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.

— Bill Konigsberg

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

— Brené Brown

“Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community expectations. The expectations dictate who we should be, what we…

— Brené Brown