“Glory, built
On selfish principles, is shame and guilt.”

“Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.”

“The secret of happiness is having the freedom to express a full range of emotions without guilt or shame.”

“I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.”

“Aye, I built in woe. God willed it;
Woe that passeth ghosts of guilt.”

“My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.”

“Men the most infamous are fond of fame,
And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.”

“The other's glory seems to make him prey
to shame, as though reproached for coward fear.”

“When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.”

“Western culture is undergoing a process of transition from guilt-oriented, with a conscience, to shame-oriented, with a morbid fear of being found out.”