- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guilt Quotes
Honest lines about the weight of conscience.
This set covers guilt from several angles: a flat refusal to carry it, a warning that glory built on selfishness curdles into shame, and a wry observation about feeling worst over sins never actually committed. It treats guilt as something worth examining rather than simply enduring. See related feelings under Emotion quotes.
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- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.
- Cheaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
We intellectuals are not stupid: we know the phenomenology of guilt is a bad photocopy of the phenomenology of thought, so it's much cheaper to press that button.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pollution is everywhere, in that ancient Greek sense of miasma: guilt experienced as abject body fluid, moral pollution defining what kinds of beings count in social space.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Gerald R. Ford was never one for second-guessing, but for many years after leaving office in 1977, he carried in his wallet a scrap of a 1915 Supreme Court ruling. 'A pardon,' the excerpt said, 'carries an imputation of guilt,' and acceptance of a pardon is 'a confession of it.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
- Clerical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.
- Creeping
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- Nov 07, 2020