Quotes About Guilt

Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses...grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves.

The thoroughly guilty man has an advantage over all of us; he cannot be found more guilty of anything, since he has already found himself guilty of everything. This may sound like an absurdity - causing oneself extreme pain in order not to feel any number of little pains of lesser guilts and shames, but it has its own logic. A man more easily adapts to what he inflicts upon himself; as to his own judgement, he is already committed to it and willing to live with it.

Turk had once killed a man, and he had built a life on the foundation of that guilt.

Understand this: In the game of power, the people you associate with are critical. The risk of associating with infectors is that you will waste valuable time and energy trying to free yourself. Through a kind of guilt by association, you will also suffer in the eyes of others. Never underestimate the dangers of infection.

It is an extremely human response to not look inward after a mistake or crime, but rather to look outward and to affix blame and guilt on a convenient object.

And the most dangerous of their weapons was insinuation—the means by which Madame cast her spell on the young man, making him seem the aggressor, giving her the night of pleasure she desired, and safeguarding her guiltless reputation, all in one stroke.

People who accuse you of being unfair, for example, who try to make you feel guilty, who talk about justice and morality, are trying to gain an advantage on the chessboard.

Avoidance of conflict becomes a habit, and you lose the taste for battle. Feeling guilty is pointless; it is not your fault you have enemies.

Now, if any fundamental assumption underlies our system, it is that guilt is personal and not inheritable.

I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives but that progress in the law may never be made at the price of morally guilty lives.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

It's one of the things men are for, taking the blame. They usually deserve it, even if you don't know exactly how.

It's always a man's fault." One

It is hard for me to believe that a human being could have done what I have done." Jeffrey Dahmer 

Der Mensch ist entweder im Stande, rechtswidrig zu handeln oder er ist es nicht, denn dazwischen gibt es nichts Drittes und Mittleres. Durch diese Fähigkeit wird er strafbar, durch seine Eigenschaft der Strafbarkeit wird er Rechtsperson, und als Rechtsperson hat er teil an der überpersönlichen Wohltat des Rechts.

Via?a obi?nuit? este o stare intermediar? alc?tuit? din toate crimele de care suntem capabili.

No puedes declararme culpable de pecados cometidos en sueños.

Guilt is worse than greed, for guilt robs the body of its soul.

La avaricia es buena." Padre rico lo articuló de otra manera: "La culpa es peor que la avaricia porque la culpa le roba el alma al cuerpo." Pero creo que Eleanor Roosevelt lo expresó aún mejor: "Haz lo que tu corazón te diga que es lo correcto porque de todas formas te van a criticar. Mal si lo haces y mal si no lo haces.

Lo más difícil fue enfrentarme al dogma de mis verdaderos padres: No podemos pagar eso. Deja de pensar solo en ti mismo. ¿Por qué no puedes pensar en los demás? Ellos usaron estas y otras frases similares para infundirme un sentimiento de culpabilidad y así suprimir mi avaricia.

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

Mrs Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn't mean to be wicked. It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

one sin demands another to cover it.