Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent..
...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs..
He that knows no guilt can know no fear..
Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take..
He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation..
"It almost always happens that people enjoy a few moments and then afterwards feel very guilty. The guilt arises because of the ego. The ego starts t….
It’s scary to realize that the only thing holding our friends to us isn’t our performance, or our lovability, or their guilt, or their obligation. Th….
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt..
Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is when you feel bad about who you ar….
...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action..
Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude..
We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power..
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt..
Many Americans have lost confidence in the way our criminal courts assess guilt and innocence. Whatever one thinks of the verdicts, the recent trials….
Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is muddling up things you have done with who you a….
Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth's inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left..
I don't have that kind of Southern experience, of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. I come more from the gui….
Lunch." I said. "Immediately. I'm going to wither away to absolutely nothing. Then you'll be racked with guilt." "I doubt it..
To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing i….
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie..
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..