Quotes by Guilt The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt. Antonin Scalia guilt determination judging There are so many more productive things to do than sit around feeling shame and guilt. Beyond touching on shame and guilt in a perfunctory manner, I wouldn't bother with that at all. Antony Hegarty touching guilt feelings Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation. Archibald MacLeish guilt animal men I know this is insane, but i somehow wish i had been in auschwitz with my parents so i could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did. Art Spiegelman guilt parent wish Guilt, remorse. It's what separates us from the animals. Arthur Mitchell funny-simpsons guilt animal 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 guilt pride pregnancy We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death? Athenagoras of Athens guilt people looks This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong. Atul Gawande shame guilt done Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures. Audre Lorde bricks wall guilt Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. Audre Lorde response guilt action Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action. Audre Lorde guilt action way I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility. Audrey Hepburn guilt responsibility believe How vast the benefits divine which we in Christ possess! We are redeemed from guilt and shame and called to holiness. But not for works which we have done, or shall hereafter do, hath God decreed on sinful men salvation to bestow. Augustus Toplady guilt done men I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret. Ayelet Waldman regret guilt energy The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life. Ayn Rand accepting guilt witty Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence. Ayn Rand innocence grants guilt Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it. Ayn Rand cash guilt men Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on. Ayn Rand guilt self mean We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt. Ayn Rand doctrine guilt life-is I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence. Ayn Rand accepting guilt facts «1234567891011»