#guilt

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#build #call #estate #foundation #ground

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt. ↗

— Ben Hecht

#beggar #both #envy #guilt #his

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#beautiful #enduring #feel #get #guilty

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#guilt #mothers #sacrifice #experience

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty. ↗

— DMX

#fundamental #guilty #important #innocence #judicial

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent! ↗

— Bette Davis

#guilty #innocent #proved #till

December 25th has become guilt and obligation. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#december #guilt #obligation

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty. ↗