David Ben-Gurion Quotes

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

It's hard to determine where lies culpability.

To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.

We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.

Capt. Gordon is as responsible for the death of those on the Erie. As if he had taken the life of each by his own hand. For once, when no doubt exists as to guilt, a terrible example should be made.

If I do bad, shoot me.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.

I have trouble admitting I'm wrong.

I'm human, and I make mistakes.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?

I made my fair share of mistakes.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

People tend to scare you pointing out your shortfalls. If you voluntarily admit your faults, then people won't have anything to point out.

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

I'm not a god - I do bad things.

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.