Famous quotes containing the word guilt:
“Accuse. To affirm another’s guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
“Most people agree that men have trouble showing hurt, jealousy, and fear but even mothers, whose wider emotional range is often taken for granted, also seem more comfortable with anger than these other “unparentlike” feelings. This is probably because several generations of mothers have now been twelve-step-programmed and pop-psychologized enough to believe that expressing hurt, fear, anxiety, or dependence will create pathological guilt in their kids.”
—Ron Taffel (20th century)