quotations about guilt
It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.
HANNAH ARENDT
Eichmann in Jerusalem
We each begin in innocence.
We all become guilty.
LEONARD F. PELTIER
Prison Writings
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guild is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
R. D. LAING
Self and Others
A guilty system recognizes no innocents.
IAIN M. BANKS
The Player of Games