Guilt Quotations | Page 4

It was because it was easier to blame me, ... You know, 'Why is he rocking the boat?' In those days there was a lot of that stuff. He was asking for it. He did it on purpose. He was begging for it. It was just conventional blaming-the-victim stuff. I don't like the term 'victim' when applied to myself. Certainly I felt the guilt burden had shifted from the people doing the violence to the person on the receiving end of the violence.

It was a wonderful testament to the idea of having 12 good citizens determine guilt or innocence, and also appropriate punishment for someone who was convicted.

Ford Reflex is a small car that doesn't feel small. It is a gorgeous sporty car that delivers guilt free performance with a hybrid engine. And thanks to its innovative approach to the interior, it has space for growing families.

It's going to be an extraordinary debate filled with fear and guilt and racism and xenophobia.

You try to help them tell a coherent story about what is happening, to make sense of it, so they feel less guilt and shame over protecting others, which is so common,

The 'office spouses' can be more open with each other than they can with their own spouses, and there's no guilt involved.

The nurses are innocent, and all proposals for paying compensation or any other form of recognizing guilt are unacceptable.

Education is our main focus. I live on land where the Cherokees lived. For me, this is a little bit about guilt and a lot about my love of history.

No amount of Guilt can change the past, and no amount of Worrying can change the futur

It's a manipulative tool. I don't think it's fair to heap guilt on them because they feel they have to terminate a pregnancy. That's just the most cruel form of abuse that I can imagine.

Oh, my capacity for guilt is enormous. I'm all the time thinking I'm not doing the things I should be doing, not doing enough of it, or I said I'd be vice-president of something or other, and what I have I done? Nothing.

No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.

It won't escape the jury that this guy is not all there. I'm not sure that makes a huge difference in the guilt phase except for softening up the jury for the penalty phase.

These twelve people who decide guilt or innocence are not legal scholars. The only law they take into the jury room is the law Judge Lake gives them.

This is just not about the judges -- the judges are not known directly by people, ... This is guilt by association and augurs of bigger things to come.

The intelligence material now leaves no doubt whatever of the guilt of bin Laden and his associates,

The father's injury, in this case, can be connected to guilt at having been away. He was not there for his father.

I'm not some cold-hearted person who doesn't care. I do care. Even though it was an accident, I'm sorry for what happened. I still feel guilt like there was something I could have done.

I'm not going to make any judgment, guilt or innocence right now. I'm just glad I know doping control's going on.

In my experience of shame, the other sees all of me and all through me, even if the occasion of shame is on my surface -- for instance, in my appearance; and the expression of shame, in general, as well as in the particular form of it that is embarrassment, is not just the desire to hide, or to hide my face, but the desire to disappear, not to be there. It is not even the wish, as people say, to sink through the floor, but rather the wish that the space occupied by me should be instantaneously empty. With guilt it is not like this. I am more dominated by the thought that even if I disappeared, it would come with me.

I know the guilt I live (with) every day of my life is nothing compared to the grief of the Baker family.

I knew it could go either way. I'm disappointed, but it has nothing to do with Hill's guilt or innocence. It just prolongs the inevitable.

If I were ever to grace the pages of 'Vogue,' I would want my image retouched because the audience is so vast. There is great vulnerability in being exposed to that many judging eyes. I feel no small amount of guilt over this willingness to surrender my ideals.

In the Zhao Yan and Ching Cheong cases, the authorities, and in particular the State Security Department, seem to be having the greatest difficulty in demonstrating the guilt of the accused.

Being on a plane has become a mini-retreat for me, ... Long international flights are like vacation. No phone, no e-mail and no guilt for being unreachable.

Because men have to, and women can chose to. Women remind men and guilt them into it.

His guilt of this heinous crime is not in question,

His guilt is proven by all the evidence collected on all counts of the indictment,

...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on a bush.

I don't think Steven King did anything wrong and he shouldn't feel guilt even though he would because of the injury sustained,

All too often we're filled with negative and limiting beliefs. We're filled with doubt. We're filled with guilt or with a sense of unworthiness. We have a lot of assumptions about the way the world is that are actually wrong.

I always felt guilty. My whole life.

If you give up the guilt, that's a huge load off your shoulders.

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.

Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit who is condemned to death is not prepared to acknowledge his sentence as atonement; rather, he sees his guilt in his own inadequacy. Thus, he recognizes himself not as a moral but as a tragic person.

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

The impious man, who sells his country's freedom Makes all the guilt of tyranny his own. His are her slaughters, her oppressions his; Just heav'n! reserve your choicest plagues for him, And blast the venal wretch.

There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

No one blames her." "That never matters," said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.

And Jessamine-Jessamine was gazing at her in abject horror, like someone who has seen a vision of their own ghost. For a moment Tessa felt a stab of guilt. It lasted only a moment, though. Slowly Jessamine lowered her hand from her mouth, her face still very pale. "Goodness, my nose is enormous," she exclaimed. "Why didn't anyone tell me?

When the masculine mystique is pulling boys and men out into the world to growl manly noises at one another, the only power with astronger pull on the male psyche is maternally induced guilt. The guilt is quite necessary for our moral development, but it is often uncomfortable.

I have a massive guilt thing about money.

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

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

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.

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 charge against an accused out of his own mouth.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement - will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro.

Meanwhile, I get to make an album. I feel like I've been very lucky. There is a guilt when I see people I know who work really hard, then I'm like, "Oh, I've got to do an interview today." I'm so appreciative of all of this, but it does feel like the bubble will burst at some point and it will all have been a dream.

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.

Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.

There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.

You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.

My husband is a very present husband, and that has made going to work feel easier. I don't feel guilty. I definitely feel less guilt because I know he's there during breakfast, lunch and supper if I'm not.

Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.

An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And though want of suspicion more than want of sense, sometimes leads a man into harm; yet too much suspicion is as bad as too little sense.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.

You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it.

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

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.

where everybody is guilty, nobody is.

Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges, the sovereign people, conscious of the general rectitude of his life, and courageously determined to bear the burdens of his sins in so far as guilt was his.

Isolating, shutting down, and feeling guilt about pain makes it linger so much longer. Reconnecting, trusting, and being open and honest is really the only cure. Reaching out and talking to loved ones and friends is a must.

There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

With the Fall all became abnormal. It is not just that the individual is separated from God by his true moral guilt, but each of us is not what God made us to be. Beyond each of us as individuals, human relationships are not what God meant them to be. And beyond that, nature is abnormal - the whole cause-and-effect significant history is now abnormal. To say it another way: there is much in history now which should not be.

How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.

I felt such horrible guilt. I knew a monster had been unleashed on the city.

I felt some guilt taking from Ruth. I'm exploiting the opportunity being a thief. I was disappointed when I was put on the floor.

I cannot begin to explain the grief and the guilt that we are all feeling at this moment. I ask myself if Anthony would be alive if we had proceeded with the adoption, or if we made the right decision by leaving him with the Mann family for adoption.

I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials.

For the Australian dollar it has been guilt by association.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.

Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

We fail to see the gospel as the solution to our greatest problem-our guilt, condemnation, and alienation from God. Beyond that, we fail to see it as the basis of our day-to-day acceptance with Him. As a result, many believers live in spiritual poverty.

Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.

We believers do need to be challenged to a life of committed discipleship, but that challenge needs to be based on the gospel, not on duty or guilt. Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.