Guilt Quotes - Page 23

• I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.

  Athol Fugard

  Writing, Thinking, White

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• Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Principles, Criminals

  "Rogers v. Richmond, 365 U.S. 534". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 20, 1961.

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• My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town ... a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.

  Gerald Kaufman

  Home, Grandmother, Government

  "Commons debate on Gaza - live" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2009.

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• I place us where we are a happy couple who are madly in love, and we are kissing the way people kiss on their wedding day. With joy and relief and love. Without guilt. Without Shame.

  A.S. King

  Couple, Kissing, People

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• The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, He Man, Slaveholders

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

  Immanuel Kant

  Blood, Punishment, Islands

  Immanuel Kant, Mary J. Gregor (1999). “Practical Philosophy”, p.474, Cambridge University Press

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• Only when we accept and forgive all that is or has been the good, the bad, and the ugly of our human lives can we get off the guilt trip and back into the flow. That means we must love our humanness and all of our failings; we must accept, learn from, and yes, even love our mistakes.

  Sonia Choquette

  Mistake, Mean, Forgiving

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• Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

  Horace Mann

  Heart, Hands, Insanity

  Horace Mann (1867). “Lectures and Annual Reports on Education”, p.325

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• Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.

  Maxim Gorky

  Bitter, Speak, Guilty

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• If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?

  Germaine Greer

  War, Grief, Differences

  Germaine Greer (2014). “The Whole Woman”, p.228, Random House

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• Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed. Through confession we bring it into the light, we place it within Christ's purifying love. In confession, the Lord washes our soiled feet over and over again and prepares us for table fellowship with him.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Light, Feet, Silence

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• No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Men, Excuse, Pity

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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• To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence of their spirit - we're closing our hearts, deflecting a miracle and causing our own inevitable suffering.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Heart, Errors

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 10, 2013

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• When you have committed an action that you cannot bear to think about, that causes you to writhe in retrospect, do not seek to evade the memory: make yourself relive it, confront it repeatedly over and over, till finally, you will discover, through sheer repetition it loses its power to pain you. It works, I guarantee you, this sure-fire guilt-eradicator, like a homeopathic medicine - like in small doses applied to like. It works, but I am not sure that it is a good thing.

  Mary McCarthy

  Pain, Memories, Thinking

  "How I Grew". Book by Mary McCarthy, 1987.

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• By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places — whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest — where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Blood, Church

  "Young Goodman Brown" (1835)

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• He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

  George R. R. Martin

  Doubt, Half

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.2315, Bantam

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• There is unspeakable joy... for the person who knows release from guilt and the relief of forgiveness.

  Stuart Briscoe

  Christian, Joy, Relief

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• Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pregnancy, Pride, Sacred

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• We were going to have an all-day drinking binge. Gonna ride our bikes, hang out... do naughty things. But I started feeling this overwhelming guilt.

  Jessica Simpson

  Pregnancy, Drinking, Naughty

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• When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.

  Bernie Siegel

  Happiness, Moving, Past

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• A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.

  Eric Ripert

  Thinking, People, Asking

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• I've always hated religion. It's the most guilt-ridden, horrible thing. 'My God is better than yours, and I'm going to fight you and kill you because of your religion.' I think it's just a sick idea. You know how people are color-blind when it comes to other people - I mean, hopefully they are. Well, I'm religious-blind.

  Linda McCartney

  God, Religious, Mean

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• Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!

  William Shatner

  Pain, Taken, Cynical

  "Fictional character: James T. Kirk". "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier", 1989.

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• The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters.

  Kenneth Clark

  Educational, Ghetto, Dark

  Kenneth B. Clark (1989). “Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power”, p.11, Wesleyan University Press

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• In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

  Sophocles

  Darkness, Doe, May

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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