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~ Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. ~

~ Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. ~

~ Innocence is the weakest defense. Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies. ~

Leonand F. Peltier

~ Shame is closely related to guilt, but there is a key qualitative difference. No audience is needed for feelings of guilt, no one else need know, for the guilty person is his own judge. Not so for shame. The humiliation of shame requires disapproval or ridicule by others. If no one ever learns of a misdeed there will be no shame, but there still might be guilt. Of course, there may be both. The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish to relieve guilt may motivate a confession, but the wish to avoid the humiliation of shame may prevent it. ~

Paul Ekman,

~ Guilt is a rope that wears thin. ~

Ayn Rand,

~ Guilt soon learns to lie. ~

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

~ Thou need'st not answer; thy confession speaks, Already redd'ning in thy guilty cheeks. ~

Lord Byron

~ To take upon oneself not punishment, but guilt - that alone would be godlike. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. ~

Joseph Marie de Maistre

~ All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. ~

Cathy Ladman

~ Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong ~

Tryon Edwards

~ 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

~ In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of another. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. ~

Immanuel Kant

~ The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. ~

Confucius

~ Regret, which is guilt without the neurosis, enables us ... to move forward instead of back. ~

Jane Adams

~ Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. ~

William Cowper

~ Innocence is the weakest defense. Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies. ~

Leonard F. Peltier

~ Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. ~

Lindley Karstens

~ The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Guilt is anger directed at ourselves ~

Peter McWilliams

~ The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness ~

Victor Hugo

~ The guilty think all talk is of themselves ~

Geoffrey Chaucer

~ Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death ~

Coco Chanel

~ For socialists, not just the wealth, but the guilt, must be redistributed ~

Andrew Sandlin

~ Guilt is always jealous ~

John Ray

~ Guilt is always jealous ~

John Ray

~ Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong ~

Tryon Edwards

~ Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow ~

Horace Bushnell

~ Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow ~

Horace Bushnell

~ Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing ~

Hannah Arendt

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