Wilhelm II, German Emperor Quotes

I'm ashamed to be German.

When you're a kid, what you learn in school about being German has a sort of heaviness about it, and you have a sort of guilt with you.

I let the American people down.

I'm guilty for a lot of things.

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.

I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

When you feel you've done something wrong, you should apologise for it.

You can say you're sorry 5,000 times, but that doesn't mean you mean it.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.

Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. Adults realise, however, that few among us are purely innocent or utterly blameless.

I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.