“The only guilt of the victims, he thought, had been that they accepted it as guilt.”
“The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.”
“There was a stricken conscience of public guilt and we all felt that we had been wrong, that something was wrong with that building which we had accepted or the tragedy never would have happened. Moved by this sense of stricken guilt, we banded ourselves together to find a way by law to prevent this kind of disaster.”
“Only afterward did the guilt set in--the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty.”
“Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.”
“Child, people always look for guilt outside themselves. A person chooses the role of the victim.”