#guilt — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #guilt, aggregated by home.social.
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A quotation from Josh Billings
I notiss that when a man runs hiz hed aginst a post, he cusses the post fust, all kreashun next, and sumthing else last, and never thinks ov cussing himself.
[I notice that when a man runs his head against a post, he cusses the post first, all creation next, and something else last, and never thinks of cussing himself.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Trump Kards, ch. 7 “When I waz a Boy” (1874)More about (and a variant of) this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/73841/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #accident #blame #culpability #error #fault #guilt #mistake #pain #reaction #responsibility #selfawareness #selfblame
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A quotation from Josh Billings
I notiss that when a man runs hiz hed aginst a post, he cusses the post fust, all kreashun next, and sumthing else last, and never thinks ov cussing himself.
[I notice that when a man runs his head against a post, he cusses the post first, all creation next, and something else last, and never thinks of cussing himself.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Trump Kards, ch. 7 “When I waz a Boy” (1874)More about (and a variant of) this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/73841/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #accident #blame #culpability #error #fault #guilt #mistake #pain #reaction #responsibility #selfawareness #selfblame
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A quotation from Josh Billings
I notiss that when a man runs hiz hed aginst a post, he cusses the post fust, all kreashun next, and sumthing else last, and never thinks ov cussing himself.
[I notice that when a man runs his head against a post, he cusses the post first, all creation next, and something else last, and never thinks of cussing himself.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Trump Kards, ch. 7 “When I waz a Boy” (1874)More about (and a variant of) this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/73841/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #accident #blame #culpability #error #fault #guilt #mistake #pain #reaction #responsibility #selfawareness #selfblame
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A quotation from Josh Billings
I notiss that when a man runs hiz hed aginst a post, he cusses the post fust, all kreashun next, and sumthing else last, and never thinks ov cussing himself.
[I notice that when a man runs his head against a post, he cusses the post first, all creation next, and something else last, and never thinks of cussing himself.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Trump Kards, ch. 7 “When I waz a Boy” (1874)More about (and a variant of) this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/73841/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #accident #blame #culpability #error #fault #guilt #mistake #pain #reaction #responsibility #selfawareness #selfblame
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Sometimes a post or two here will inspire a quick, impromptu blog post, and today was one of those times.
#blogs #blogging #writing #inspiration #guilt #shame #SelfHelp #improvement #gorillas
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All choices have consequences. Including symbolic action, and inaction.
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All choices have consequences. Including symbolic action, and inaction.
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A sin takes on new and real terrors when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out. This gives it a fresh and most substantial and important aspect.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1899-12), "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” ch. 4, Harper’s Monthly, Vol. 100, No. 595More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/59026/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #discovery #findingout #guilt #offense #scandal #secret #shame #sin #vice
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A sin takes on new and real terrors when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out. This gives it a fresh and most substantial and important aspect.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1899-12), "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” ch. 4, Harper’s Monthly, Vol. 100, No. 595More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/59026/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #discovery #findingout #guilt #offense #scandal #secret #shame #sin #vice
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A sin takes on new and real terrors when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out. This gives it a fresh and most substantial and important aspect.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1899-12), "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” ch. 4, Harper’s Monthly, Vol. 100, No. 595More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/59026/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #discovery #findingout #guilt #offense #scandal #secret #shame #sin #vice
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A sin takes on new and real terrors when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out. This gives it a fresh and most substantial and important aspect.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1899-12), "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” ch. 4, Harper’s Monthly, Vol. 100, No. 595More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/59026/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #discovery #findingout #guilt #offense #scandal #secret #shame #sin #vice
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KP the Songsmith - Gifted Mind (single)
"An acoustic indie-folk dive into the 'remorse loop' of adult ADHD, letting you know you're not alone in the chaos."
#indiepop #pop #bedroompop #singersongwriter #acoustic #indiefolk #folkpop #introspective #storytelling #coffeehouse #confessional #guilt #adhd #mentalhealth #midtempo #neurodivergent #minneapolis #music
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: Hobbes, do you think our morality is defined by our actions, or by what’s in our hearts?
HOBBES: I think our actions show what’s in our hearts.
CALVIN: (after consideration) I resent that!Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1990-10-18)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/83114…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #actions #bestintentions #conscience #goodintentions #heart #integrity #intentions #morality #motivations #motives #virtue #wellintentioned #wordsanddeeds #aspersions #guilt #shame
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“I am innocent of this man’s blood. The responsibility is yours!”
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“I am innocent of this man’s blood. The responsibility is yours!”
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The wicked flee when no man pursueth ….
[נָ֣סוּ וְאֵין־רֹדֵ֣ף רָשָׁ֑ע]
The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Book 20. Proverbs 28: 1 (Prov 28:1) [KJV (1611)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/82769/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thebible #bible #oldtestament #proverbs #chase #evil #fear #flight #guilt #guiltyconscience #paranoia #pursuit #runningaway #shame #wicked
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#Verantwortung und #Erinnerung: Wie umgehen mit der #NS- #Vergangenheit unserer Familien? | #German #Guilt:
Waren unsere Vorfahren zur Zeit der #NS-Diktatur #Täter, #Opfer oder #Mitläufer? Thilo Mischke taucht mit Schauspielerin Katja Riemann und Autorin Ronja von Rönne in die eigene Familiengeschichte ein.
Lebensborn, #Staatssicherheit, #KPD: Thilo Mischkes #Familiengeschichte ist ein Krimi. Ronja von Rönne taucht in die #Wehrmachts- #Geschichte ein.
@ZDFheute
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#Verantwortung und #Erinnerung: Wie umgehen mit der #NS- #Vergangenheit unserer Familien? | #German #Guilt:
Waren unsere Vorfahren zur Zeit der #NS-Diktatur #Täter, #Opfer oder #Mitläufer? Thilo Mischke taucht mit Schauspielerin Katja Riemann und Autorin Ronja von Rönne in die eigene Familiengeschichte ein.
Lebensborn, #Staatssicherheit, #KPD: Thilo Mischkes #Familiengeschichte ist ein Krimi. Ronja von Rönne taucht in die #Wehrmachts- #Geschichte ein.
@ZDFheute
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#Verantwortung und #Erinnerung: Wie umgehen mit der #NS- #Vergangenheit unserer Familien? | #German #Guilt:
Waren unsere Vorfahren zur Zeit der #NS-Diktatur #Täter, #Opfer oder #Mitläufer? Thilo Mischke taucht mit Schauspielerin Katja Riemann und Autorin Ronja von Rönne in die eigene Familiengeschichte ein.
Lebensborn, #Staatssicherheit, #KPD: Thilo Mischkes #Familiengeschichte ist ein Krimi. Ronja von Rönne taucht in die #Wehrmachts- #Geschichte ein.
@ZDFheute
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#Verantwortung und #Erinnerung: Wie umgehen mit der #NS- #Vergangenheit unserer Familien? | #German #Guilt:
Waren unsere Vorfahren zur Zeit der #NS-Diktatur #Täter, #Opfer oder #Mitläufer? Thilo Mischke taucht mit Schauspielerin Katja Riemann und Autorin Ronja von Rönne in die eigene Familiengeschichte ein.
Lebensborn, #Staatssicherheit, #KPD: Thilo Mischkes #Familiengeschichte ist ein Krimi. Ronja von Rönne taucht in die #Wehrmachts- #Geschichte ein.
@ZDFheute
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#Verantwortung und #Erinnerung: Wie umgehen mit der #NS- #Vergangenheit unserer Familien? | #German #Guilt:
Waren unsere Vorfahren zur Zeit der #NS-Diktatur #Täter, #Opfer oder #Mitläufer? Thilo Mischke taucht mit Schauspielerin Katja Riemann und Autorin Ronja von Rönne in die eigene Familiengeschichte ein.
Lebensborn, #Staatssicherheit, #KPD: Thilo Mischkes #Familiengeschichte ist ein Krimi. Ronja von Rönne taucht in die #Wehrmachts- #Geschichte ein.
@ZDFheute
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#52booksin52weeks 21. Written in the 1800's - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley #maryshelley #frankenstein #madscientist #frankensteinsmonster #Science #ethics #naturevsnurture #prejudice #SublimeNature #HumanAmbition #sciencefiction #sciencefictionclassic #Loss #Guilt #bookstagram #booktok #booksky #gamemastersbookclub #ttrpgpodcast https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Our readiness to think ill of people without sufficiently examining the matter is based on laziness and pride. We want to find people guilty, we don’t want the bother of studying their crimes.
[La promptitude à croire le mal, sans l’avoir assez examiné, est un effet de l’orgueil et de la paresse: on veut trouver des coupables, et on ne veut pas se donner la peine d’examiner les crimes.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶267 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #accusation #assumption #condemnation #crime #ego #evidence #examination #guilt #indolence #investigation #laziness #offense #presumption #pride #blame
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artist / title not found, I think it says "Schwarting" in the lower left. Pschiatric Bulletin, 1953? Persecution?
Something about running from the truth, and the psychology of that. We need to maintain our front or else it all falls down. A lot of people do whatever they can get away with, and then work overtime to justify it.
But the others know, and they will always know, and they have always known. They saw what you did. They remember that thing.
That's what I saw in this. Not the persecution of the innocent but the projected persecution of the guilty. Easy to see enemies everywhere if you know you deserve enemies.
#art #psychology #responsibility #guilt #shame #blame #running #liars #self #ethics #morality #bullies #human #flaws #civilization #society #community
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A quotation from William Shakespeare
MACBETH: I am afraid to think what I have done;
Look on’t again I dare not.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Macbeth, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 66ff (2.2.66-67) (1606)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #fear #guilt #regret #remorse #shame #shakespeare #willshakespeare #williamshakespeare #macbeth -
What You Refused to Own, You Will Be Owned By
https://wp.me/p84YjG-acM
#guilt #past #mistakes #avoidance #accountability #zsoltzsemba #psychology #honesty #responsibilityhttps://zsoltzsemba.com/what-you-refused-to-own-you-will-be-owned-by/
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/277518/ Dear Abby: Is it fair of me to exclude son from my estate planning due to what he did when his grandmother died? #Action #auction #authority #book #bribing #Business #Crime #CrimeAndPunishment #CriminalJustice #Currency #Éire #Equipment #gavel #GroupOfObjects #guilt #IE #industry #innocence #Ireland #isolated #IsolatedObjects #judgement #JusticeConcept #law #LawBook #LawEnforcementAndCrime #LegalSystem #NoPeople #PersonalFinance #PersonalFinance #WhiteBackground
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I think there's a tendency to do one of two politically harmful things: one of which is to mistake self-punishment for politically restorative action, another is to mistake an active choice to remain politically ignorant for avoiding the former.
I think it is important to avoid both of these tendencies. We must guard against the tendency to criticize ourselves merely for the sake of criticism, as if our guilt alone somehow cleanses us of culpability. We must guard against the attempt to expose ourselves to the negative merely for the sake of it, but also against the tendency to avoid the negative and the unpleasant because we assume political futility; because we assume there is no value in knowledge that may be difficult or upsetting for us to confront. Because there is value in that knowledge--confronting that knowledge is the first necessary step to the actions that can heal our world. -
A quotation (sort of) from Ben Franklin
Beware, beware! he’ll cheat ’ithout scruple, who can without fear.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1743 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/34…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #cheat #cheater $cheating #conscience #criminal #deceit #fear #fraud #getawaywith #guilt #humannature #opportunity #risk #riskassessment #risktaking #scruple #shame
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Shackled
https://thelavendergaze.com/2022/06/shackled/11 June 2022 There was a boy who became a man. Almost – not entirely. Part of him would remain in that in-between space called adolescence. Stuck like a wraith. Shackled by guilt. Image credits: Ahmad Juliyanto
#Gay #GayWriter #GrowingUp #Guilt #LGBTQ #Poems #Poetry #Queer #QueerArtist #QueerMastodon #QueerPoetry #QueerWriters #VulnerableWriting
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The fourth…
As many of you who have followed this blog site for a while will know, my bestest soulmate unfortunately passed away on July 4th 2025. It's been a little over 4 months now, and I still miss her like crazy. I always knew that she was special, that she gave me so much more than I could ever try to give back to her. But, I tried with all my power, abilities, money, and love... But, as time without her passes by, I realize more and more that she did so much more than I thought! So many things where I feel I may have taken things for granted, just because her intuition was just right and she knew my needs even better than I did. And, of course, I tried my best to provide to all her needs and wants as well. I may have spoiled her a bit, but now I wonder if it was enough... It's been a few days since it was the 4th. As I am a night owl, I am often awake during the night, enjoying the calm and darkness. But the night of July 3 going on 4, plagued by pain and trauma, I was awake with Arwen, and I saw her struggles and uneasiness. It hurt me to see her like that, and I knew I had to call the vet ASAP in the morning. I wrote a blog that night (Will this be it?), fearing that I was going to lose her. And, unfortunately, I was right, and she passed away with my mum and me at her side around 9:30 that Friday morning. 😢 […] -
https://www.europesays.com/uk/539547/ Dear Abby: Niece waits 16 years before questioning aunt about terms of her grandmother’s will #action #Auction #authority #book #bribing #Business #Crime #CrimeAndPunishment #CriminalJustice #currency #equipment #Finance #gavel #GroupOfObjects #guilt #Industry #innocence #isolated #IsolatedObjects #judgement #JusticeConcept #Law #LawBook #LawEnforcementAndCrime #LegalSystem #NoPeople #PersonalFinance #UK #UnitedKingdom #WhiteBackground
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/154981/ Dear Abby: Niece waits 16 years before questioning aunt about terms of her grandmother’s will #Action #auction #authority #book #bribing #Business #Crime #CrimeAndPunishment #CriminalJustice #Currency #Éire #Equipment #gavel #GroupOfObjects #guilt #IE #industry #innocence #Ireland #isolated #IsolatedObjects #judgement #JusticeConcept #law #LawBook #LawEnforcementAndCrime #LegalSystem #NoPeople #PersonalFinance #PersonalFinance #WhiteBackground
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Dare not to be guilty of ill Things, tho’ thou wert sure to be secret and unpunished. Conscience will sit upon it, and that is Witness, Jury, Judge, and Executioner.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2216 (1727)More info about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/79900/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #conscience #guilt #guiltyconscience #selfawareness #selfcondemnation #selfconsciousness #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfesteem #selfinflictedwound #selfjudgment #selfregard #shame #wrongdoing
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Dare not to be guilty of ill Things, tho’ thou wert sure to be secret and unpunished. Conscience will sit upon it, and that is Witness, Jury, Judge, and Executioner.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2216 (1727)More info about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/79900/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #conscience #guilt #guiltyconscience #selfawareness #selfcondemnation #selfconsciousness #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfesteem #selfinflictedwound #selfjudgment #selfregard #shame #wrongdoing
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Dare not to be guilty of ill Things, tho’ thou wert sure to be secret and unpunished. Conscience will sit upon it, and that is Witness, Jury, Judge, and Executioner.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2216 (1727)More info about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/79900/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #conscience #guilt #guiltyconscience #selfawareness #selfcondemnation #selfconsciousness #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfesteem #selfinflictedwound #selfjudgment #selfregard #shame #wrongdoing
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Dare not to be guilty of ill Things, tho’ thou wert sure to be secret and unpunished. Conscience will sit upon it, and that is Witness, Jury, Judge, and Executioner.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2216 (1727)More info about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/79900/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #conscience #guilt #guiltyconscience #selfawareness #selfcondemnation #selfconsciousness #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfesteem #selfinflictedwound #selfjudgment #selfregard #shame #wrongdoing
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/509896/ Liz Weston: At least 13 grandchildren are set to inherit a family property. Is this a recipe for disaster? #action #Auction #authority #book #bribing #Business #Crime #CrimeAndPunishment #CriminalJustice #currency #equipment #Finance #gavel #GroupOfObjects #guilt #Industry #innocence #isolated #IsolatedObjects #judgement #JusticeConcept #Law #LawBook #LawEnforcementAndCrime #LegalSystem #NoPeople #PersonalFinance #UK #UnitedKingdom #WhiteBackground
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Australian Drama ‘Reckless’ Headed For MIPCOM With Federation International
#News #BBCStudiosProductions #FederationStudios #Guilt #MIPCOM #Reckless #SBS #ThoseWhoLived #TVMarketshttps://deadline.com/2025/10/reckless-sbs-mipcom-launch-federation-international-1236583198/
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Whoever hasn’t sinned should throw the first stone.
[Ὁ ἀναμάρτητος ὑμῶν πρῶτος ἐπ᾽ αὐτὴν βαλέτω λίθον.]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
John 8: 7 (Jesus) [CEB (2011)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/4570/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #bookofjohn #gospelofjohn #jesus #accusation #guilt #guiltyconscience #humannature #selfawareness #shame #sin #sinfulness #sinlessness
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Be this your wall of brass — no secret sin,
To pale the cheek and rack the heart within!
[Hic murus aeneus esto,
nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1 “To Maecenas”, l. 60ff (1.1.60-61) (20 BC) [tr. Martin (1881)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14705/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #clearconscience #cleanconscience #conscience #defense #guilt #innocence #pale #pallor #regret #remorse #selfawareness #shame #strength
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Thursday, August 28, 2025
Admission of guilt: Ukraine blasts Russia’s planned withdrawal from torture prevention convention — Powerful explosion rocks Russian oil pipeline supplying Moscow — Across occupied Ukraine, Russia has caused a devastating water crisis it cannot fix — [vlog] Why Russia’s war won’t end yet … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/thursday-august-28-2025/
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Thursday, August 28, 2025
Admission of guilt: Ukraine blasts Russia’s planned withdrawal from torture prevention convention — Powerful explosion rocks Russian oil pipeline supplying Moscow — Across occupied Ukraine, Russia has caused a devastating water crisis it cannot fix — [vlog] Why Russia’s war won’t end yet … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/thursday-august-28-2025/
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Thursday, August 28, 2025
Admission of guilt: Ukraine blasts Russia’s planned withdrawal from torture prevention convention — Powerful explosion rocks Russian oil pipeline supplying Moscow — Across occupied Ukraine, Russia has caused a devastating water crisis it cannot fix — [vlog] Why Russia’s war won’t end yet … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/thursday-august-28-2025/
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Thursday, August 28, 2025
Admission of guilt: Ukraine blasts Russia’s planned withdrawal from torture prevention convention — Powerful explosion rocks Russian oil pipeline supplying Moscow — Across occupied Ukraine, Russia has caused a devastating water crisis it cannot fix — [vlog] Why Russia’s war won’t end yet … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/thursday-august-28-2025/
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Thursday, August 28, 2025
Admission of guilt: Ukraine blasts Russia’s planned withdrawal from torture prevention convention — Powerful explosion rocks Russian oil pipeline supplying Moscow — Across occupied Ukraine, Russia has caused a devastating water crisis it cannot fix — [vlog] Why Russia’s war won’t end yet … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/thursday-august-28-2025/
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
In a courtroom there is no system on trial, no History or historical trend, no ism, anti-Semitism for instance, but a person, and if the defendant happens to be a functionary, he stands accused precisely because even a functionary is still a human being, and it is in this capacity that he stands trial.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Essay (1964-08), “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship,” The Listener MagazineMore info about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/46000/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #eichmann #accountability #collectiveguilt #functionary #group #guilt #humanbeing #ideology #individual #justice #responsibility #trial #warcrimes #crimesagainsthumanity
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The cringing Train of Pow’r, survey;
What Creatures are so low as they!
With what obsequiousness they bend!
To what vile actions condescend!
Their Rise is on their Meanness built,
And Flatt’ry is their smallest Guilt.Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1741 ed.)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/78…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichardsalmanac #asskisssing #bowing #condescension #courtiers #favor #flattery #flunkies #guilt #hangerson #insincerity #lackeys #obsequiousness #power #praise #servility #subservience #sycophant #kowtowing #followers
