Definition of Guilt

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Definition of Guilt

Guilt

The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right.

Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture.

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Guilt Quotations

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
John Lennon

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
Ayn Rand

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
Erma Bombeck

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco Chanel

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
John Adams

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jane Austen

What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.
Dennis Miller

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.
Dennis Miller

Guilt Translations

guilt in Danish is skyld
guilt in Dutch is schuld
guilt in German is Schuld
guilt in Italian is colpa
guilt in Latin is crimen
guilt in Norwegian is skyld
guilt in Portuguese is culpa
guilt in Spanish is culpa

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