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guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
Among women, guilt spreads with the rampant fury of bubonic plague. ... I used to feel guilty if the cat had matted fur.
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.
One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father.
If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?
ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.
One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment.
I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!
FOOVIEW (foo' view) n. The ability of a dog to inflict guilt from any angle in the room while he watches his master eat.
To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed.
Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.
In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.
Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.
Satan will try to use our memory of any previous guilt to lure us back...We must be ever vigilant to avoid his enticements
Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other peoples best interests.
Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.
To execute a man we don't need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. It's that simple.
The money from wealthy nations to confront some very real global poverty and economic issues is largely given out of guilt.
This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.
Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!
Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.
He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.
Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests.
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.
I was always fraught with guilt, and it's such a waste of an emotion. It keeps you out of the moment of being where you are.
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.
All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.
That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.
'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.
Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.
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.
Lunch." I said. "Immediately. I'm going to wither away to absolutely nothing. Then you'll be racked with guilt." "I doubt it.
Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment.
I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer.
I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.
We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.
You know anything about investigative work?" "Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.
All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
I wake when my wife wakes, at 7:30 A.M. I'd like to sleep longer, but she has to go off to work, and I'd be plagued with guilt.