Barack Obama Quotes

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?

It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

I'd not want to answer for the lives of other men; not at seventeen, by God's Grace.

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

Clearly something had gone wrong, badly, only I wasn't quite sure what—apart from knowing that I was responsible somehow, in the generalized miasma of shame and unworthiness and being-a-burden that never quite left me.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

I do not believe in collective guilt.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that am sorry.

I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for having suffered this horrid trade to be carried on under their authority. We are all guilty—we ought all to plead guilty, and not to exculpate ourselves by throwing the blame on others; and I therefore deprecate every kind of reflection against the various descriptions of people who are more immediately involved in this wretched business.

I suppose in the end it's almost too easy to look back and say what you should have done, how you might have changed things. What's harder - what's much, much harder - is to accept what you actually did do.

The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.

I grew up in a religious family and, like, that was a very big part of my life, and still, very much, is even though I don't affiliate with any specific religion. It's just, for me, you know, the spirituality of being able to own up to your sins, as they're called, and take responsibility for your actions really hit me this time around.

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

The law is not known, since there is nothing in it to know. We come across it only through its action, and it acts only through its sentence and its execution. It is not distinguishable from the application. We know it only through its imprint on our heart and our flesh: we are guilty, necessarily guilty. Guilt is like the moral thread which duplicates the thread of time.

We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . .

shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.