Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo Quotes

Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.

Fears of sinning let in thoughts of sin.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.

Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

Oh but I'd pay anything to keep my conscience clean.I'm keeping my eyes on the the exit sign. Steady now.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.