And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.
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.
Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
I release all feelings of worry and guilt. Throughout life, the two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been done and worry about what might be done.
Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
I'm not actually sure if guilt is an emotion. In fact, that was - at the very beginning of this process, we realized, man, we really don't know very much about this subject so we better do some research. And we started looking around online.
As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.
He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind.
Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.
A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.
Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.
Probably the only thing my mom and dad agreed on was the vital importance of guilt.
The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim. . . to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.
Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.
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.
the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.