(268 quotes found)
“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
“It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.”
Hannah Arendt
“I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.”
Roland Barthes
“Guilt is a rope that wears thin.”
Ayn Rand
“When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?”
Cyril Connolly
“I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt”
Edna O'Brien
“Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves”
Titus Livy
“Whatever punishment does to a nation it does not induce a sense of guilt”
Anne O'Hare McCormick
“A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.”
Hans Frank
“Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.”
Bill Wilson
