Best shame & remorse Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.”

Feels Business Gratitude Shame Corporations Remorse Goodwill

“Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.”

Shame Misery Terror Endless Architect Wickedness Remorse Diligent

Author:Plutarch

“Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.”

Feels Body Individual Gratitude Shame Punishment Corporate Remorse Disgrace Mischief Goodwill Amenable

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue.”

People Feels Mean Sometimes Done Action Wish Natural Moral Principles Virtue Trouble Havens Prove Shame Like Me Wicked Frank Virtuous Remorse Particles Humbug Owning It

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.”

Ifs Mind Action Grows Moral Shame Awakening Length Virtuous Remorse Vivid Indignation Callous

Author:Anna Letitia Barbauld

“Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores; And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.”

Joy Pride Angel Shame Ruined Remorse Sweetest

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.”

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Author:Plutarch

“When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.”

Real Past Sin Grace Shame Guilt Remorse Ragamuffin Gospel Sins Of The Past

Book:The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

“And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.”

Has Beens Made Done Feelings Felt Too Much Stronger Shame Guilt Complicated Chiefs Damage Characteristics Remorse Amends Primeval

Book:The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.”

Men Believe Conscience Shame Guilt Remorse

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.”

Men Heart May Night Shame Lays Guilt Innocent Guilty Lifts Remorse

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.”

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Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.”

People Art Media Solutions Shame Entertainment Selling Shirts Remorse T Shirt Retribution

Author:Don Henley

“Si quelqu’un a volé, ou porté atteinte à autrui, ou même tué un autre homme, on envoie quérir la Clairvoyante. Car certains font le mal sans en ressentir aucune honte. Et nombre d’entre eux parviennent à cacher leurs scrupules au plus profond de leur conscience en se trouvant de multiples excuses. Ils vont parfois même jusqu’à se convaincre qu’ils étaient dans leur bon droit en commettant leur crime. Mais lorsqu’ils rencontrent la Clairvoyante, ils ne peuvent plus se cacher leurs méfaits ni les dissimuler aux autres. La plupart des hommes connaissent le repentir. Et quand il m’arrive de rencontrer quelqu’un qui n’en éprouve pas ou presque, je fais en sorte qu’il ressente une douleur. Car j’ai appris à utiliser ce don inhabituel qui est aussi le tien.”

Evil Justice Shame Remorse

Book:The Shamer’s Daughter

Source: The Shamer’s Daughter

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