Guilt Quotes

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves

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

The guilty think all talk is of themselves
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

You can bear anything-if it isn't your own fault
Katherine Fullerton

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed

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







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