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I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.

Quotes by Yotam Ottolenghi

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Quotes by William Cowper

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Quotes by Walter Scott

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

Quotes by V. S. Pritchett

Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.

Quotes by Ursula Burns

We intellectuals are not stupid: we know the phenomenology of guilt is a bad photocopy of the phenomenology of thought, so it's much cheaper to press that button.

Quotes by Timothy Morton

Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective level.

Quotes by Timothy Morton

Pollution is everywhere, in that ancient Greek sense of miasma: guilt experienced as abject body fluid, moral pollution defining what kinds of beings count in social space.

Quotes by Timothy Morton

President Gerald R. Ford was never one for second-guessing, but for many years after leaving office in 1977, he carried in his wallet a scrap of a 1915 Supreme Court ruling. 'A pardon,' the excerpt said, 'carries an imputation of guilt,' and acceptance of a pardon is 'a confession of it.'

Quotes by Scott Shane

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.

Quotes by Sarah Zettel

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

Quotes by Ryszard Kapuscinski

I don't want to live with the guilt of messing up someone's retirement fund.

Quotes by Romesh Wadhwani

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Quotes by Roland Barthes

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

Quotes by Roger Mahony

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Quotes by Robert South

I have no better way of judging guilt or innocence than anyone else.

Quotes by Robert Shapiro

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

Quotes by Robert Blair

The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary actions - pulls generation after generation heavily as lead down, down, down.

Quotes by Richard Jefferies

December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

Quotes by Phil Donahue

I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is all that battlefield stuff.

Quotes by Peter Hammill

I'm not actually sure if guilt is an emotion.

Quotes by Pete Docter

Grief has similar side effects of alcohol consumption, such as numbness, guilt, and depression, resulting in less alert and price-sensitive customers. In addition, the funeral industry is somewhat taboo in the sense that communities in general don't communicate with one another about what are acceptable practices in this industry.

Quotes by Perianne Boring

'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.

Quotes by Pawel Pawlikowski

We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.

Quotes by Patrick Chappatte

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

Quotes by Ovid

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Quotes by Nathaniel Parker Willis

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

Quotes by Natalie Wood

We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.

Quotes by Naomi Wolf

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

Quotes by Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

Quotes by Mia Farrow

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests.

Quotes by Melody Beattie

Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves.

Quotes by Melody Beattie

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

Quotes by Maya Rudolph

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Martin Luther King Jr.

But I don't believe in guilt by association.

Quotes by Marion Jones

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

Quotes by Marcus Brigstocke

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

Quotes by Lorna Luft

There are times when you need to pitch a fit and other times when you need to apply Catholic guilt, and it's just figuring out which is the most appropriate approach and then implementing it.

Quotes by Lisa Murkowski

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

Quotes by Kevin Kline

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.

Quotes by Kenneth L. Pike

When you're a kid, what you learn in school about being German has a sort of heaviness about it, and you have a sort of guilt with you.

Quotes by Juergen Teller

Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.

Quotes by Joshua Oppenheimer

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

Quotes by Jonathan Kozol

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Quotes by John Adams

I don't do guilt, but if I were to squint in that direction, it's probably enjoying simple computer games like Zuma. But I regard such things as part of my hand-eye coordination workout.

Quotes by Jo Beverley

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

Quotes by Jeanne Moreau

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.

Quotes by Janet Reno

There's no guilt in eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains.

Quotes by Jane Velez-Mitchell

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Jane Austen

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

Quotes by Isabelle Holland

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

Quotes by Holly Near

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

Quotes by Henry Fielding

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

Quotes by Heather Locklear

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.

Quotes by Hans Frank

When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished.

Quotes by Gilbert Baker

I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.

Quotes by Gian Carlo Menotti

The creation of Spoleto was a social experiment. Because I've always suffered guilt from being a Catholic, when I was in my fifties I felt a need of being needed.

Quotes by Gian Carlo Menotti

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

Quotes by George Sewell

The guilt of newborns is immense.

Quotes by Georg Trakl

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Quotes by Franz Kafka

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

Quotes by Franz Kafka

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

Quotes by Ezekiel Emanuel

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Quotes by Erma Bombeck

Once they are charged, too many poor New Yorkers find themselves trapped by our unjust bail system. Unable to pay for bail, they languish in Rikers Island or other jails while they await trial, regardless of guilt.

Quotes by Eric Schneiderman

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

Quotes by Emma Forrest

I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody's lives.

Quotes by Emily Mortimer

I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.

Quotes by Dory Previn

Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?

Quotes by Dorothea Dix

Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.

Quotes by Donald Pleasence

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

Quotes by Diane Lane

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.

Quotes by Dennis Miller

If a child had another disease, we'd be open about what we were going through, but addiction is stigmatised and comes with shame and guilt.

Quotes by David Sheff

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Quotes by Coco Chanel

I have a massive guilt thing about money.

Quotes by Chris Lilley

Good-quality travel and good-quality food are the two luxuries that I never have any guilt indulging in.

Quotes by Charlie Hunnam

I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.

Quotes by Charlie Cox

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Quotes by Cathy Guisewite

There's been times I've been paralyzed by guilt when I've had to work crazy hours or miss a parent-teacher interview.

Quotes by Catherine Reitman

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

Quotes by Captain Beefheart

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.

Quotes by Bradley Cooper

I'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated.

Quotes by Billy Collins

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.

Quotes by Bill Toomey

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

Quotes by Ayn Rand

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

Quotes by Ayelet Waldman

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

Quotes by Arianna Huffington

Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.

Quotes by Andy Dick

Guilt is never very far from Rick Grimes' shoulder. It comes with the package. He's a man who takes his responsibilities very heavily, not lightly.

Quotes by Andrew Lincoln

There are those who believe in my innocence and those who believe in my guilt. There is no in-between.

Quotes by Amanda Knox

I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.

Quotes by Alison Goldfrapp

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Quotes by Alan Cohen

In Staten Island, when you have video showing the alleged chokehold used on Eric Garner, why not go to trial and have the officer(s) explain the tape, and then this jury can determine guilt or innocence? The tape should guarantee that there should be a trial.

Quotes by Al Sharpton

During my breakdown, many things, tiny things I had not even registered before, had begun to torment me with guilt. I used to steal Splenda from Starbucks. I would go into a Starbucks whenever I needed the sweetener and would take a fistful of packets, even when I didn't buy a coffee.

Quotes by Akhil Sharma

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

Quotes by Aeschylus

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