"where everybody is guilty, nobody is."
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"Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt."
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"we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility."
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"I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?"
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"A guilty conscience is the mother of invention."
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"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."
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"No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it."
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"There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed."
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"It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."
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"Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is."
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"It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful."
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"The fool who repeats again and again: "I am bound, I am bound," remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," becomes a sinner indeed."
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"Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast."
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"Sin cannot dethrone God. That is what sin aims to do, but it misses its mark. Sin brings guilt to a man, but it does not bring him one ounce of sovereignty. God rules even when men imagine they are defying Him."
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"Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process."
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"One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood."
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"It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it."
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"To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation to deny it. Something politicians couldn't do. Honesty, the courage for honesty. With others and yourself."
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"I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility."
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"The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life."
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