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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

William Shakespeare

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

Voltaire

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 what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!

Lord Byron

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

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

Andrew Sandlin

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

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

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

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few

Winston Churchill

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