Guilt Quotes - Page 33

• But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine punishment, it's warped and brainwashed countless millions. It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage this has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown up into healthy, happy. productive, zestful human beings but for the burden of antisexual fear and guilt ingrained in them by the Church. This alone is enough to condemn religion.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Children, Psychics, Punishment

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• Dogmatic religion has been used to fantastic effect over thousands of years to fuel and exploit emotions like fear and guilt, and the feeling of being 'unworthy'. This has encouraged people to hand over their right to think and feel to a Bible and a priest because they have not had the confidence or self-belief to realize that they have a right, and an infinite gift, to make their own decisions

  David Icke

  Thinking, Self, Hands

  David Icke (1996). “--and the Truth Shall Set You Free”, Truth Seeker Company Incorporated

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• We want people to change because they see better ways of meeting their needs at less cost, not because of fear that we're going to punish them, or 'guilt' them if they don't. This applies to ourselves as well.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Compassion, People, Needs

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• Every guilty person is his own hangman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Punishment, Persons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Race, People, Slavery

  "‘White guilt’? Forget it: Whites have ‘done more to end’ slavery than ‘any other race,’ says Rush Limbaugh" by Clare Kim, www.msnbc.com. July 22, 2013.

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• Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.

  Vaclav Havel

  Regret, Self Confidence, Pride

  New Year's Address to the Nation, Prague, January 01, 1990.

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• Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Doubt, Needs, Moments

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• Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Humility, Responsibility, Married

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• We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last!

  Stewart Brand

  Technology, Garden, Age

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• Since our awareness of others is considered our duty, the price we pay when things go wrong is guilt and self-hatred. And things always go wrong. We respond with apologies; we continue to apologize long after the event is forgotten - and even if it had no causal relation to anything we did to begin with.

  Nancy Chodorow

  Apology, Self, Long

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• They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs, ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another.

  Erykah Badu

  Hate, Moving, Play

  "Beywatch" by Hilton Als, www.newyorker.com. May 30, 2016.

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• Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Keys, Soul, Use

  "Cleansing the Inner Vessel". Boyd K. Packer's Address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2010.

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• The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.

  Armond White

  Men, White, Political

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• Screw guilt -- I could have sex with 10 men and it wouldn't bother me. I'm an atheist!

  Adam Carolla

  Atheist, Sex, Men

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• Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is. The lengths people go to — and the extremes and the conditions and the mental exercises and guilt and shame and happiness that everybody goes through — and what they'll do for sex is never-ending and mind-boggling and very interesting to me. And I don't think a lot of times people choose any of it.

  John Waters

  Sex, Exercise, Thinking

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• It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at home with nature and the infinite.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Spiritual, Home, Musical

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• I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I will have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials.

  Howard Dean

  People, Executive Power, Trials

  "Dean: Bin Laden guilt best determined by jury". New Hampshire's Concord Monitor Interview, edition.cnn.com. December 26, 2003.

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• Boundaries emerge from deep within. They are connected to letting go of guilt and shame, and to changing our beliefs about what we deserve. As our thinking about this becomes clearer, so will our boundaries. Boundaries are also connected to a Higher Timing than our own. We’ll set a limit when we’re ready, and not a moment before. So will others. There’s something magical about reaching that point of becoming ready to set a limit. We know we mean what we say; others take us seriously too. Things change, not because we’re controlling others, but because we’ve changed.

  Melody Beattie

  Life, Success, Letting Go

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• Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, Violence

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise”, p.15, PuddleDancer Press

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• We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Desire, Want

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• Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Compassion, Punishment

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding”, p.25, PuddleDancer Press

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• Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

  John Calvin

  Unjust, Heretic

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• Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.

  John Flavel

  Men, Fire, Gunpowder

  John Flavel (1826). “A saint indeed: or, The great work of a Christian in keeping the heart in the several conditions of life”, p.127

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• People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive.

  Lisa See

  Strong, War, Smart

  Lisa See (2010). “Shanghai Girls”, p.35, A&C Black

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• If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Surfing, Answers, Computer

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