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quotes by topic Guilt

" Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. "

Nothing , Discovery , Guilt

" When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? "

Oliver Goldsmith

Art , Men , Woman , Charm , Guilt , Folly , Melancholy

" A guilty system recognizes no innocents. "

Guilt

" Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear. "

Religion , Men , Guilt

" Before we can begin to see the cross as something done FOR us, leading us to faith and worship, we have to see it as something done BY us, leading us to repentance. Only the man or woman who is prepared to own his share in the guilt of the cross may claim his share in its grace. "

Grace , Men , Guilt

" It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Guilt , Honesty

" The existence of guilty sense is soimportant in education and religion. "

Education , Guilt

" She looks at the swings, and I can see she‚Äôs imagining what they‚Äôd look like if the kids weren‚Äôt there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them.I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything. "

Love , Guilt , Life

" On the ration cards of Nazi Germany, there was no listing for punishment, but everyone had to take their turn. For some it was death in a foreign country during the war. For others it was poverty and guilt when the war was over, when six million discoveries were made throughout Europe. "

Guilt

" Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it. "

Guilt

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