Quotes About Historical guilt

So, apart from reasons of historical guilt, many Western people today find themselves imbibing the idea that 'primitive' societies had some special state of grace which we lack today – as though in a simpler time there would have been more female dominance, more peace and less homophobia, racism and transphobia.

When you're a kid, what you learn in school about being German has a sort of heaviness about it, and you have a sort of guilt with you.

Modern Germans were confirmed pacifists. They wanted no mention of the former wars, either directly or indirectly. By and large they were consumed with historical guilt, bleeding their anguish in rivulets of pride.

When this war was over, he and his family--all Germans--were going to have to live with the black mark of this (whatever this was) for a long, long time.

The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

Why don't you want to be Jewish anymore? I'm tired of the guilt. That enormous nagging historical guilt. What guilt? The guilt of being innocent victims.

From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings and priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the earth and put to the sword and captivity, to pillage and humiliation, as we are this day.