“The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves”

“The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed”

“One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were subhuman monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn't nearly so black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt.”

“Child, people always look for guilt outside themselves. A person chooses the role of the victim.”

“Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.”

“Humans just make excuses to not blame themselves”