Harold Kushner Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions." She was lecturing him, so she stopped. "Sorry. Hang around with Bran too long, and see if you don’t start passing around the Marrok’s advice as if he were Confucius.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

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

Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.

If a movie is received badly, and I'm in only one scene of it, I still feel responsible. I feel like it was my fault at all times. If people were like, 'This movie sucks!' I'd be like, 'Well, that's because I'm terrible.'

I have never done anything which I feel guilty about or wish I had not done it.

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

In truth, there is no such thing as a "sinner" for no-one can be sinned against-least of all me.

Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?

I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste.

Being guilty tends to engender feelings of guilt.

I've always been a magnet for guilt.