Guilt Quotes - Page 28

• If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mistake, Punishment, Feels

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Patanjali Yoga Sutras”, p.112, Arktos

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• Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility.

  Wayne Dyer

  Letting Go, Perfection, Empowering

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 06, 2015

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• Because of Jesus Christ, peace can replace guilt. Healthy relationships can be restored. Addictions can be overcome.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Jesus, Addiction, Healthy

  Twitter post from Nov 14, 2016

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• In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized.

  William Sargant

  Conflict, Confession, Importance

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• It’s scary to realize that the only thing holding our friends to us isn’t our performance, or our lovability, or their guilt, or their obligation. The only thing that will keep them calling, spending time with us, and putting up with us is love. And that’s the one thing we can’t control.

  Henry Cloud

  Scary, Calling, Realizing

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• You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your mind. What do you need to let go of? Take a deep breath, relax, and say to yourself, 'I am willing to let go. I release. I let go. I release all tension. I release all fear. I release all anger. I release all guilt. I release all sadness. I let go of all old limitations. I let go, and I am at peace. I am at peace with myself. I am at peace with the process of life. I am safe.'

  Louise Hay

  Letting Go, Sadness, Mind

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Jul 22, 2015

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• Oftentimes in a society when people of a certain type, whether individual or a group, are subconsciously portrayed by the media as abnormal, they also slowly, subconsciously become enemies of that society due to feelings of cultural guilt. Ultimately by this the inflated media is an enemy of its very own cause.

  Criss Jami

  Media, People, Feelings

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.79, Criss Jami

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• Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled?

  Julie Berry

  Kings, Father, Risk

  Julie Berry (2013). “All the Truth That's In Me”, p.89, Penguin

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• What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, from all human sympathy, isolated from hope, the tenant of a solitary cell, and with a wide, impassable gulf yawning between him and that great brotherhood of which he has ceased to be a part--no longer regarded as a man, but as a monster in the shape of one, from whom Mercy herself turns away, and for whom Pity even has no tears!

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Cutting, Men, Yawning

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• Write down what you feel guilty about. Now, with the biggest, reddest marker you can find, cross it out-delete it.

  Sue Thoele

  Writing, Crosses, Feels

  Sue Patton Thoele (2002). “The Woman's Book of Confidence: Meditations for Strength and Inspiration”, p.7, Conari Press

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• I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Believe, Killers

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2000.

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• There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow; But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.

  William Hazlitt

  Pain, Men, Justice

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• Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Thinking, Mirrors

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Vehemently denying something always implies guilt.

  Kiera Cass

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• By faith we receive the saving grace of God that delivers us from guilt and sin. In love we participate in the victorious struggle of God against the principalities and powers of evil.

  Gabriel Fackre

  Struggle, Evil, Grace

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• No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Men, Excuse, Pity

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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• The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, He Man, Slaveholders

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges, the sovereign people, conscious of the general rectitude of his life, and courageously determined to bear the burdens of his sins in so far as guilt was his.

  Grover Cleveland

  People, Judging, Cleveland

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• I place us where we are a happy couple who are madly in love, and we are kissing the way people kiss on their wedding day. With joy and relief and love. Without guilt. Without Shame.

  A.S. King

  Couple, Kissing, People

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• I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.

  Athol Fugard

  Writing, Thinking, White

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• My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town ... a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.

  Gerald Kaufman

  Home, Grandmother, Government

  "Commons debate on Gaza - live" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2009.

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• Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Principles, Criminals

  "Rogers v. Richmond, 365 U.S. 534". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 20, 1961.

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• If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?

  Germaine Greer

  War, Grief, Differences

  Germaine Greer (2014). “The Whole Woman”, p.228, Random House

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• Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

  Horace Mann

  Heart, Hands, Insanity

  Horace Mann (1867). “Lectures and Annual Reports on Education”, p.325

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• Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

  Immanuel Kant

  Blood, Punishment, Islands

  Immanuel Kant, Mary J. Gregor (1999). “Practical Philosophy”, p.474, Cambridge University Press

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