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~ Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible to apply ~

Warren E. Burger

~ Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil ~

Mark Twain

~ What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests ~

Nathaniel Hawthorne

~ It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent ~

Hannah Arendt

~ This young man-whether he's my son or a stranger-repeatedly declares, "I didn't do it, I didn't do it." And he's shot down. That's not the American way of life. A man is innocent until he's proved guilty ~

Marguerite Oswald

~ Successful guilt is the bane of society ~

Publilius Syrus

~ Guilt is regret for what weíve done. Regret is guilt for what we didnít do. ~

Unknown

~ You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it. ~

Clive Barker

~ I have half a conscience to go ahead and do it, and feel guilty afterwards ~

Unknown

~ How tedious is a guilty conscience ~

John Webster

~ Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty ~

Ulysses Simpson Grant

~ What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. ~

Nathaniel Hawthorne

~ How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast , Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience ~

Juvenal

~ Those who guilt stains it equals. ~

Lucanus

~ Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge. ~

Lucanus

~ These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear. ~

John Milton

~ Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! ~

Ovid

~ I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. ~

Plautus

~ Nothing is more wretched that the mind of a man conscious of guilt. ~

Plautus

~ How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight! ~

Alexander Pope

~ He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will. ~

Seneca

~ The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. ~

Seneca

~ A guilty conscience never feels secure. ~

Syrus

~ He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. ~

Syrus

~ A land of levity is a land of guilt. ~

Edward Young

~ The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer ~

Dr. Albert Ellis

~ Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. ~

Erma Bombeck

~ He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level. ~

Charles James Fox

~ Guilt is anything you did and fear others to know about ~

Mohammad

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