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• Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness, sinfulness, inferiority, incompetence, failure, or emptiness. The feeling that there are things in us that are lacking or missing or incomplete.

  Kenneth Wapnick

  Self, Hatred, Missing

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• To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

  Publilius Syrus

  Guilty, Innocent, Spares

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 113, 1856.

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• My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.

  David Sedaris

  Sweat, Break Out, Looks

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• Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

  Vera Nazarian

  Doe, Matter, Firsts

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• No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

  Stefan Zweig

  Long, Forgotten, Stills

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Justice, Bars, Wickedness

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• Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

  Samuel Johnson

  Brave, Intimidating, Conscious

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• My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of the most seditious, destructive, blasphemous, and bloodiest in any or all the nations of the world, notwithstanding the many fine veils, pretenses, and colors of not persecuting Christ Jesus, but heretics; not God's truth or servants, but blasphemers and seducers; not persecuting men for their conscience, but for sinning against their conscience; and like specious reasonings to justify the cruelty of intolerance.

  Roger Williams

  Jesus, Men, Color

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

  Isabelle Holland

  Pay, Guilt Free

  Isabelle Holland (1985). “A Death at St. Anselm's”, Fawcett Books

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• Successful guilt is the bane of society

  Publilius Syrus

  Successful, Bane

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• With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best.

  Zig Ziglar

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Art, Political

  "Lectures on Art: Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870".

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• When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face

  Thomas Southerne

  Eye, Secret, Veils

  Thomas Southerne (1774). “The fate of Capua. The Spartan dame. Money the mistress. A letter from the Earl of Orrey to Thomas Southerne”, p.144

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• For socialists, not just the wealth, but the guilt must be redistributed.

  Andrew Sandlin

  Wealth

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• It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

  Publilius Syrus

  Innocent, Easy, Enough

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• All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Lady Macbeth, Arabia

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [55]

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• Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.

  John Dryden

  Form

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1792). “British Theatre: Isabella, or, The fatal marriage”

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• It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

  Criss Jami

  Judgement, Insecurity, Judgment

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.129, Criss Jami

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• I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

  Roland Barthes

  Power, Blame, Discourse

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• Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

  George Sewell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

  George Sewell (1719). “The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh. [In Five Acts and in Verse.]”, p.4

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• 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

  Feels, Uneasy, Barriers

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.51, Penguin

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• If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Inspirational, Crime, Commit

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• Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

  Ovid

  Lays

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• Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

  Jane Porter

  Spiritual

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.19

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• Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia bosses do not have any guilt feelings either, or maybe their remains are just well hidden in the cellar. Even aborted guilt feelings...All men need guilt feelings.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Boss, Feelings

  Pope Benedict XVI (2006). “On conscience: two essays”, Natl Catholic Bioethics Center

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