Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of all revolutions. Without it, justice seems inconceivable to the rebel's mind. There comes a time, however, when justice demands the suspension of freedom. Then terror, on a grand or small scale, makes its appearance to consummate the revolution. Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. But one day nostalgia takes up arms and assumes the responsibility of total guilt; in other words, adopts murder and violence.
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Worry only about what you control. The rest is war.
We had deluded ourselves that perhaps peace might find the Arabs able, unhelped and untaught, to defend themselves with paper tools. Meanwhile we glozed our fraud by conducting their necessary war purely and cheaply. But now this gloss had gone from me. Chargeable against my conceit were the causeless, ineffectual deaths of Hesa. My will had gone and I feared to be alone, lest the winds of circumstance, or power, or lust, blow my empty soul away.
For Achilles, the death of Patroclus pushed him into a fury, but it was not only grief that drove him. It was also a sense of shame and guilt because he had not been there to protect his friend. Sometimes men in combat feel this sort of survivor__ guilt even though, realistically, they could have done nothing to prevent their comrade__ death.
On the ration cards of Nazi Germany, there was no listing for punishment, but everyone had to take their turn. For some it was death in a foreign country during the war. For others it was poverty and guilt when the war was over, when six million discoveries were made throughout Europe.
If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.
Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
Peace is a place of unhindered enjoyment of friendship beyond guilt, suspicion, blame of inferiority
Don't be sorry;Don't you cry.It's enoughThat you tried.I love you,And that won't change.It's not your faultThings worked out this way
Yes you have returnedAnd things are as they wereBut this you cannot hide,A part of you has died.
Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.
Guilt is motherfucker,... it takes everything motivation, aspiration and soul. (Kill Game 2015)
I have moments that aren't too bad, but there's always something I'm struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation.
The complex known as feelings of guilt does not let us accept ourselves the way we are created
Accidents and sicknesses are accepted as deserved retribution by the person who has feelings of guilt
Guilt takes away the energy and strength and reduces a person__ productivity
The complex called the feeling of guilt does not let us accept ourselves the way we are created
I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school but couldn't master common sense.