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.
Jon Favreau
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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
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Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco Chanel
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Critics have called alien epic 'Avatar' a version of 'Dances With Wolves' because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy.
Annalee Newitz
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December 25th has become guilt and obligation.
Phil Donahue
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I'm not actually sure if guilt is an emotion.
Pete Docter
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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.
Thomas Francis Meagher
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The money from wealthy nations to confront some very real global poverty and economic issues is largely given out of guilt.
Richard Grenell
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Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.
Levi Woodbury
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You know, the genders are different in how they approach things, and so I really think that women put a lot more guilt on themselves than need be.
Jane Curtin
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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.
Holly Near
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When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished.
Gilbert Baker
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
Erma Bombeck
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Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.
Emily Giffin
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Good-quality travel and good-quality food are the two luxuries that I never have any guilt indulging in.
Charlie Hunnam
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Lie detectors sometimes work because people believe they work, deterring the wrong people from applying for jobs in the first place, or prompting admissions of guilt during interrogations.
Bill Dedman
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
William Cowper
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You always have guilt as a working mum, and you overcompensate by buying them loads of things. That was what I was doing, anyway. I've kind of realised now that I'm the best mum that I can be.
Rebecca Ferguson
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If you impose morality on people, they will find ways to circumvent their guilt. They will make offerings to temples - or other places of worship - but also continue doing things that make them feel guilty.
Jaggi Vasudev
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Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?
Joel Edgerton
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If you're a believer, God is not a thought-experiment requiring a special sub-creation to be tried out in. He's an actual, er, actuality already, embedded in a necessary and true story about guilt, hope, and liberty. I don't want C. S. Lewis doing his resourceful best to render Him as a fabulous special effect.
Francis Spufford
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Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests.
Melody Beattie
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I don't want to harm my government. I want to help my government. But the fact that they are willing to completely ignore due process, they're willing to declare guilt without ever seeing a trial, these are things that we need to work against as a society and say, 'Hey, this is not appropriate.'
Edward Snowden
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I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.
John Mayer
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