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“Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require "educational practices and socializing agents" even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.”

People Humans Has Beens Responsibility Practice Childhood Behavior Female Guilt Burden Educational Agents Socializing

Author:Germaine Greer

“Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.”

Social Term Powerful Behavior Function Guilt

Author:David D. Burns

“If a hungry lion suddenly appeared, you'd be terrified. So terrified you'd probably run away. Great, fear's doing its job. But you might get so afraid that you lock up and can't move. This would be very bad. Guilt's the same. It can prevent you from fixing the situation, make you feel so bad you can't function at 100% and even lead to more guilt-provoking bad behavior.”

Ifs Feels Might Would Be Running Jobs Moving Situation Behavior Function Guilt Hungry Lions Running Away Locks Provoking Terrified Fixing Bad Behavior Lock Up Hungry Lion

Author:David D. Burns

“More often than not, the belief that you are bad contributes to the "bad" behavior. Change and learning occur most readily when you (a) recognize that an error has occurred and (b) develop a strategy for correcting the problem. An attitude of self-love and relaxation facilitates this, whereas guilt often interferes.”

Self Problem Belief Attitude Self Love Behavior Strategy Guilt Errors Interfere Relaxation Correcting Facilitate Bad Behavior Behavior Change

Book:Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

Source: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

“Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.”

Doe States Sides Gratitude Behavior Increase Guilt Injustice Generosity Welfare Loser Both Sides Hostility Compensation Inadequate Admission Welfare State Reparations Largesse

Author:Thomas Sowell

“A lot of the hallmark behaviors of autism - flat affect, stimming, not looking someone in the eye - could very easily be misinterpreted as signs of guilt.”

Eye Behavior Guilt Flats Autism Hallmark Misinterpreted

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.”

“As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.”

Thinking Persons Behavior Concepts Responsible Guilt Collectives Unjustified

Book:Man's Search for Meaning

Source: Man's Search for Meaning

“Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be brought into being, in conflict with more or less recognized guilt complexes. Hate demands existence and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behavior; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching. Each to his own side of the street.”

Shows Action Hate Lost Sides Existence Streets Demand Conflict Behavior Hatred Guilt Complexes Discrimination Appropriate Lynching

Book:Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks