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~ The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare...On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice. ~

Adam Smith

~ I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature. ~

Sidney Hook

~ 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

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

Thomas Jefferson

~ Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness. ~

Bill Griffith

~ That it is better that 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason. ~

Daryl Gates

~ The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice. ~

Thomas Francis Meagher

~ When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue long, commonly both become guilty. ~

Thomas Fuller

~ Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war. ~

Thor Heyerdahl

~ When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? ~

Oliver Goldsmith

~ Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught. ~

Elbert Hubbard

~ When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not Guilty. ~

Theodore Roosevelt

~ There are all kinds of smiles:happy smiles, wicked smiles, knowing smiles, ironic smiles, surprised smiles, sneery smiles, guilty smiles, pleased smiles, I told you so smiles. ~

Habu

~ The very presence of guilt, let alone its tenacity, implies imbalance: Something, we suspect, is getting more of our energy than warrants, at the expense of something else, we suspect, that deserves more of our energy than we're giving. ~

Melinda M. Marshall

~ The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. ~

Thomas Carlyle

~ No actual tyrant known to history has ever been guilty of one-hundredth of the crimes, massacres, and other atrocities attributed to the Deity in the Bible. ~

Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen

~ Guilt is never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion. ~

Edmund Burke 1729

~ Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there. ~

Edward Young, Love of Fame

~ 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. ~

Malcolm X

~ A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent ~

David Brower

~ 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

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

William Cowper

~ The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. ~

Nathaniel Parker Willis

~ To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations. ~