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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.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.
Author:
Dwight Yoakam
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
Author:
Natalie Wood
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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
Author:
Nathaniel Willis
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Author:
Alan Watts
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One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
Author:
Lalla Ward
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There is no such thing as collective guilt.
Author:
Kurt Waldheim
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Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
Author:
Don Vliet
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I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.
Author:
Roger Vadim
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The guilt of newborns is immense.
Author:
Georg Trakl
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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Author:
Thomas Szasz
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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.
Author:
Bishop South
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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.
Author:
Mira Sorvino
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I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.
Author:
George Soros
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
Author:
George Sewell
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My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
Author:
Anna Sewell
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Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.
Author:
Tom Selleck
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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.
Author:
Walter Scott
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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.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?
Author:
George Ryan
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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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.
Author:
Janet Reno
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The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
Author:
V. Pritchett
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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.
Author:
Donald Pleasence
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
Author:
Titus Plautus
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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.
Author:
Kenneth Pike
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In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
Author:
Gilbert Parker
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Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
Author:
Ovid
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But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
Author:
James Otis
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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
Author:
Edna O'Brien
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Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.
Author:
Holly Near
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Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Author:
Henry Miller
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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.
Author:
Dennis Miller
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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.
Author:
Dennis Miller
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It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it.
Author:
Christopher Meloni
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The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
Author:
Thomas Meagher
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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
Author:
Peter McWilliams
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I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.
Author:
Phil McGraw
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You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.
Author:
Roger McGough
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Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.
Author:
Roger Mahony
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My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
Author:
Lorna Luft
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With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.
Author:
Heather Locklear
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I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?
Author:
Monica Lewinsky
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Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
Author:
John Lennon
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I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.
Author:
Jude Law
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There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.
Author:
Jude Law
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I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
Author:
Jessica Lange
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
Author:
R. Laing
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Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.
Author:
Michelle Kwan
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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.
Author:
Marge Kennedy
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The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.
Author:
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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But I don't believe in guilt by association.
Author:
Marion Jones
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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
Author:
E. Jones
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I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
Author:
Arianna Huffington
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Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.
Author:
Isabelle Holland
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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.
Author:
Ben Hecht
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What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
Author:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.
Author:
Teri Hatcher
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Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
Author:
Cathy Guisewite
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
Author:
Oliver Goldsmith
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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.
Author:
John Galbraith
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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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.
Author:
Raymond Feist
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I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.
Author:
Jon Favreau
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The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.
Author:
Frederic Farrar
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
Author:
Lawrence Durrell
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I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe.
Author:
Julia Dreyfus
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And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.
Author:
Margaret Drabble
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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.
Author:
Rita Dove
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December 25th has become guilt and obligation.
Author:
Phil Donahue
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To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.
Author:
James Dickey
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Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.
Author:
Andy Dick
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
Author:
William Cowper
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The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.
Author:
John Clayton
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Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Author:
Coco Chanel
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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.
Author:
Jim Carrey
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What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. 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.
Author:
Jim Carrey
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Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.
Author:
Drew Carey
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I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do.
Author:
Alex Campbell
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I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.
Author:
Sophia Bush
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I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.
Author:
Edward Burns
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If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.
Author:
William Bridges
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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.
Author:
Omar Bradley
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How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.
Author:
Robert Blair
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Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
Author:
Martha Beck
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Author:
Simone Beauvoir
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
Author:
Roland Barthes
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Author:
Jane Austen
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
Author:
Saint Augustine
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Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
Author:
Paddy Ashdown
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
Author:
Hannah Arendt
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A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
Author:
Aeschylus
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Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
Author:
John Adams
