The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.
The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
Rachel Carson
When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
David Hume
He who flees judgment confesses his guilt.
Anon., Legal maxim
To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.
Samuel Johnson, Rambler #148, Au
We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, AllT
The very presence of guilt, let alone its tenacity, implies imbalance: Something, we suspect, is getting more of our energy than warrants, at the expense of something else, we suspect, that deserves more of our energy than we
Melinda M. Marshall, Good Enough
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.
LaoTzu
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.Cavendum est ne major poena quam culpa sit; et ne issdem de causis alii plectantur,alii ne appellentur quidem.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De offici
He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation.
Proverb, Robert Christy, Proverb
In the small circle of pain within the skullYou still shall tramp and tread one endless roundOf thought, to justify your action to yourselves,Weaving a fiction which unravels as you weave,Pacing forever in the hell of make-believeWhich never is belief: this is your fate on earthAnd we must think no further of you.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, Murde
Guilt is often an appropriate response to wrongdoing, but punishment impedes the development of a conscience by taking away the opportunity for him to feel guilty. He has no chance to develop inner motivation.
Nancy Samalin, Loving Your Child
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
Chaucer
Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behind,With whips and stings
Nicholas Rowe
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
Erma Bombeck
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca th
Guilt alone, like brain-sick frenzy in its feverish mood, fills the light air with visionary terrors, and shapeless forms of fear.
Junius
Merciful death! How you love your precious guilt.
Anne Rice, Interview with the Va
All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.
Kenneth L. Woodward
So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,That, when a soul is found sincerely so,A thousand liveried angels lacky her,Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.
John Milton, Comus
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies.
Albert Schweitzer
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.
Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
Willard Gaylen
It is criminal to steal a purse,daring to steal a fortune,a mark of greatness to steal a crown.The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Friedrich von Schiller
Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.Culpam poena premit comes
Horace
Sleep is still most perfect when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence,
Where the guilt is doubtful, a presumption of innocence should in general be admitted.
Junius, Letters, No. 67. (1772)
All are presumed good till they are found at fault.
George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
The liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.
Junius, The Letters of Junius 'D
We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.
Junius, letter to London Publick
Two things only the people desire: bread, and the circus games.
Juvenal
Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
Lee Iacocca
Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.
Christopher Morley
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
Salman Rushdie
You can't eat compliments.
Charles Monroe Schulz, (Snoopy)
Treating mental illness saves all of us money. Take addiction. We heard testimony that for every dollar spent on addiction treatment, we save $7. Thathttp://www.legis.state.wi.us/senate/sen31/news/Columns2008/column2008-051.asp
Kathleen Vinehout, Erasing the S
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own - for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
Rod Serling, episode The Monster
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.
Germaine Greer
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