Guilty Quotes

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan

Time, Society, Law

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis

Faith, Passion, Christ

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare

Mind, Suspicion, Haunts

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S. Thompson

Society, Stupidity, Getting

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
Steve Jobs

After, Creativity, Creative

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson

Person, Law, Dangerous

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
Theodore Roosevelt

Whether, Present, Call

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus

Work, Art, Conscience

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
Piers Anthony

Person, Sometimes, Makes

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Voltaire

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
Marilyn Monroe

Women, Men, Gossip

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire

Risk, Innocent, Saving

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
Malcom X

Power, Powerful, Control

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Immanuel Kant

Law, Others, Rights

Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
Samuel Adams

Life, Feeling, Lost

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine

Wife, Evil, Passion

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
George Orwell

Until, Innocent, Judged

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen

Second, Played, Steal

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Life, Fire, Said

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
Honore de Balzac

Wife, Young, Flower

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
George W. Bush

Government, Innocent, Terrorist

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rather, Leave, Innocent

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller

Simple, Everyone, Fact

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.
Jim Carrey

Life, Family, Money

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

True, Nothing, Innocence

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Talk, Themselves

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
Alice Walker

Both, Inside, Israel

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
Aleister Crowley

Science, Study, Conscience

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling

Age, Men, Forget

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