1,201 Quotes About Guilt

The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.

Maybe under all that guilt and certainty that he couldn't love again, he still wanted me. I would have liked to have found out. But I didn't have the time. Instead, I punched him.

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

If it's a sunny day, I get this weird guilt if I'm not making the most of it, so I'll walk or go for a swim or get on my bike, or I'll go to the Heath, just have a reason to get out.

Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent ...

The 'office spouses' can be more open with each other than they can with their own spouses, and there's no guilt involved.

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!

The only shame is to have none.