guilt quotes

• I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. (Roland Barthes) [power/guilt]
• Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [guilt/men/thing/men]
• I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt. (Ben Hecht) [wealth/envy/guilt]
• Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast. (Samuel Johnson) [guilt/rest]
• Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. (Henry Miller) [sin/guilt/neurosis/knowledge]
• Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many. ( Ovid) [guilt]
• Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality. (John Ruskin) [life/guilt/art]
• Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. (Susan Sontag) [logic/guilt]
• I've met holocaust survivor victims, through other films, and I know what survivor guilt is like. (Ben Kingsley) [guilt]
• Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time. (Dennis Miller) [guilt/time]
• What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy. (Dennis Miller) [guilt/guilt]
• Guilt is the most meaningless of emotions. It means nothing. As Barbra Streisand says, 'I got nothing to be guilty of... .' (Gabriel Byrne) [guilt]
• I think there is sometimes guilt, if you have to go away for work but really don't want to leave home for a week. (Kelly Preston) [think/guilt/housing]
• I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base. (Mira Sorvino) [sin/guilt/people]
• My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt. (Lorna Luft) [mother/class/guilt]

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