“There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, because it results in self-hatred.”

“Hatred is self-punishment. Do you think they're feeling bad because you hate them?”

“If you see good circumstances around you, you tend to feel good and attract good things to you. If you see negative things around you, you tend to feel bad and likewise attract negative things to yourself.”

“There's genuine pain in Eric's eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt.”

“Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. Knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That’s what makes us humans.”

“Unlike guilt, which is the feeling of doing something wrong shame is the feeling of being something wrong.”