quotes about Guilty
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
-- Albert Einstein -
Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.
-- Alison LurieSource : Alison Lurie (2012). “Love and Friendship: A Novel”, p.440, Open Road Media
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Ah, how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!
-- Amelia BloomerSource : Amelia Bloomer (1975). “Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer”
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I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim of someone else's life, I know, but made it to keep the innocent safe and the guilty punished, and I have made it as the world should be and not as I have found it.
-- Amy Bloom -
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
-- Anatole France -
When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.
-- Andrew Fastow -
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Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.
-- Andy GriffithSource : "Fictional character: Sheriff Taylor". "The Andy Griffith Show", blogs.chicagotribune.com.
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I really don't have a guilty pleasure.
-- Ann Marie BuerkleSource : "Meet the Lawmaker Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (R-N.Y.), 25th District". Interview with Kris Kitto, thehill.com. April 4, 2011.
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More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.
-- Anthony Anderson -
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We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.
-- Arthur Erickson -
Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
-- Ayn RandSource : "Faith Of The Fallen". Book by Terry Goodkind, August 22, 2000.
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The marvel of marvels is not that God, in His infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that He has elected any.
-- B. B. Warfield -
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A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty.
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I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.
-- Barbara Goldsmith -
It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.
-- Ben AaronovitchSource : Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.8, Hachette UK
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Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.
-- Bernhard SchlinkSource : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.134, Vintage
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If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.
-- Beryl MarkhamSource : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.55, Open Road Media
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In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.
-- Betty MacDonaldSource : BETTY MACDONALD (1945). “THE EGG AND I”
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I feel a little guilty only being an actor.
-- Blythe Danner -
It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die
-- Brent Weeks -
I definitely don't plead guilty to being a heartthrob.
-- Bruno Mars -
Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.
-- Buchi EmechetaSource : Buchi Emecheta (1994). “The Joys of Motherhood”, p.165, Heinemann
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I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.
-- Busy Philipps -
Start building a network of fellow entrepreneurs that understand your passion and don’t make you feel guilty about always chasing it.
-- Cameron Herold -
I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.
-- Carolyn ParkhurstSource : Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press
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What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?
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Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty.
-- Cathy Ladman -
Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.
-- Charles Manson -
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
-- Charlotte LennoxSource : Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.97
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This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.
-- Chris Asplen -
I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.
-- Connie Willis -
No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If I like it, I don't feel guilty about it
-- Darren Criss -
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I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.
-- David Crosby -
A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.
-- David M. Raup -
All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent
-- David R. BrowerSource : "The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century". Book by Ronald Bailey, reason.com. July 21, 2015.
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I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.
-- Dawn French -
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It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.
-- Dolores Ibarruri -
We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation.
-- Donald Alexander -
I'm the guilty one for uttering those terrible, ugly words.
-- Donald SterlingSource : Full transcript: Donald Sterling’s interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, www.insidesocal.com. May 13, 2014.
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My paintings are so legible, I feel guilty.
-- Doris McCarthy -
There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.
-- Douglas Wilson -
One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
-- Edward Coke -
Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
-- Elias Canetti -
Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.
-- Elizabeth Jane Howard -
Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.
-- Elizabeth JanewaySource : Elizabeth Janeway (1953). “Leaving Home”, p.254, Feminist Press at CUNY
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Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything
-- Elizabeth Strout -
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Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming
-- Emma Thompson -
I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.
-- Ernst KaltenbrunnerSource : "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, p. 5, 1995.
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The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman
-- Foxy BrownSource : "Rapper Brown Says She’s a Victim". blog.sfgate.com. February 27, 2007.
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I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. Ill plead guilty to that.
-- Frank Reynolds -
Not only is homosexuality a sin, but anyone who supports ***** is just as guilty as they are. You are both worthy of death.
-- Fred Phelps -
Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.
-- George JacksonSource : George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press
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I vowed to our countrymen that I would do everything I could to protect the American people. That's why I said to Afghanistan: If you harbor a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorist.
-- George W. Bush -
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It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.
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My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.
-- Giulio AndreottiSource : "Interview with Giulio Andreotti, Italian Former Prime Minister". Interview with Bill Delaney, www.cnn.com. September 24, 1995.
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Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.
-- Glen Cook -
If anyone is found guilty, I will step on them.
-- Glenn Hoddle -
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
-- Golda Meir -
We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty
-- Gordon Clark -
The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.
-- Helen BevingtonSource : Helen Smith Bevington (1971). “The house was quiet and the world was calm”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
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A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.
-- Henri Poincare -
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Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.
-- Henry Fielding -
You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.
-- Holly Black -
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
-- Hortense Calisher -
None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.
-- Hosea Ballou -
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If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.
-- Ignatius Loyola -
God knew what we were before conversion - wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion - weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
-- J. C. Ryle -
The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.
-- J. C. Ryle -
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Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
-- J. C. Ryle -
The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.
-- J. I. Packer -
I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
-- Jack Kerouac -
You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
-- Jaclyn Smith -
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The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.
-- Jacques LacanSource : Jacques Lacan (2013). “The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan”, p.321, Routledge
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I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all.
-- Jacques PepinSource : "Chef Jacques Pepin Eats Airport Hot Dogs, Rarely Spends More than $12 on Wine". "Bon Appetit" interview, www.bonappetit.com. November 14, 2011.
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Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
-- Jean-Jacques RousseauSource : Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education”, Рипол Классик
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It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.
-- Jeff LindsaySource : Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.143, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.
-- Jesse Eisenberg -
In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that.
-- Jock Sturges -
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I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.
-- Jock Sturges -
You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.
-- Joel Osteen -
Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.
-- John Garamendi -
... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games, while I was supposed to be doing mathematics. Then, when I discovered surreal numbers, I realized that playing games IS math.
-- John Horton Conway -
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I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.
-- John Krasinski -
Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.
-- John Mortimer -
Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.
-- John Podhoretz -
But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.
-- John Steinbeck -