Guilt Quotes - Page 13

• When the government is looking for a criminal in the crowd, it construes people in terms of culpability: innocence or guilt. When a corporation uses emotion recognition software to gauge your reaction to a carton of milk, it construes your body as a consumer. So there are these different modes of seeing what it is to be human, which have important implications for social classification, stereotyping, and racial profiling.

  Nicole Miller

  People, Important, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

  Jo Nesbo

  Passion, Writing, People

  "Los Angeles Times Interview: Hugh Hefner: in the Shadow of Aids, Examining What's Left of the Sexual Revolution". articles.chicagotribune.com. July 31, 1994.

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• My generation those who were students in the late 60s was always, in the words of the Who, talking about our generation. That's what we thought of ourselves, as the most important thing since sliced bread. And the "we" that we meant was really the Western Europeans and American generation. And as I think back I suppose I have a sense of guilt on behalf of my generation, a sense that we were terribly provincial and didn't understand the really important stuff that was going on in Eastern Europe.

  Tony Judt

  Thinking, Important, Students

  "Postwar". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. December 20, 2005.

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• Growing up, I was constantly reminded to not to air our family's dirty laundry. Part of why domestic violence is allowed to continue is because there is often an unwritten rule in many families of abuse: Don't ask. Don't tell. Keeping quiet does no good. I found that sharing my story liberated me from my past. There is power in storytelling and, in that, healing. Owning my truth also empowered me. I will no longer be manipulated or controlled by guilt or shame.

  Kambri Crews

  Growing Up, Dirty, Healing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A lot of the guilt didn't help my drinking at that point. I never expected a divorce to happen in my life particularly, but it just slowly happened. My wife was proud of me, but she hated the business, and for good reason. The spouses get moved, shoved aside, and ignored, and it's just, it's terrible.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Drinking, Divorce, Wife

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• I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Drama, Law, Games

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• I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't.

  Amy Adams

  Religious, Lying, Impact

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

  Saint Augustine

  Tears, Stains

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• Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

  Martha Beck

  Children, Grief, Anger

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• I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

  Bono

  Stars, Rocks, Catholic

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• Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

  Omar N. Bradley

  War, Political, Politics

  "Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words" by Peace Pilgrim, (p. 113), 1992.

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• Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good; when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely a hair/nails thing, a prelude to an evening of guilt-free fun.

  Julie Burchill

  Fun, Mistake, Hair

  "A suitable case for treatment". www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2008.

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• Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

  Tony Campolo

  Jobs, People, Way

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• I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life.

  Tony Campolo

  Hurt, Giving, Joy

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• I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

  Jim Carrey

  Care, Want, Way

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• We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

  Deepak Chopra

  Blame, Disaster, Feels

  Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Deepak Chopra (2012). “Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being”, p.147, Harmony

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• When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Jobs, Drama, School

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• December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

  Phil Donahue

  December, Obligation

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• 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.

  Rita Dove

  Years, Two, Two Years

  Interview with Jesse Kornbluth for "The Book Report", www.math.buffalo.edu. April 8, 1997.

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• Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Beach, Ocean, Vacation

  "The Beach Book". Book by Gloria Steinem, 1963.

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• Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

  Emily Giffin

  Waste, Energy, Wasting Time

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• 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.

  Germaine Greer

  Two, Triangles, Sides

  "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.

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• Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require "educational practices and socializing agents" even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.

  Germaine Greer

  Educational, Responsibility, Practice

  "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.

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• When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire.

  Angie Harmon

  Mother, Way, Facts

  "Angie Harmon: Heart and Soul". Interview with Monica Corcoran Harel, www.goodhousekeeping.com. June 8, 2011.

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• I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

  Janet Jackson

  Spiritual, Religious, Believe

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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