Social Guilt Quotes

Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't do it either, but I am responsible for it because I am a man and a citizen of this country and you are responsible for it, too, for the very same reason... Anyone who is trying to be conscious must begin to dismiss the vocabulary which we've used so long to cover it up, to lie about the way things are.

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.

But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and struggle for a moldy bit of bread; when whatsoever I should spend to enable me to live in that world of higher emotions must needs be taken from the very mouths of those who grew the wheat and had not bread enough for their children?

I just started going to shows. I don't know how submerged I am: I feel guilty that I don't get out more, but I really like being inside the house.