Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iain Banks

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

Horace

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

Chris Lilley

I have a massive guilt thing about money.

Gene Weingarten

I am not saying Rubin Carter was guilty. I am saying he was very likely guilty.

Felix Frankfurter

Ours is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system -- a system in which the state must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.

Cassandra Clare

No one blames her." "That never matters," said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.

A player of ours has been proven guilty of biting. That's a scar that will never heal.

Punish all the guilty parties, whoever they are, and do everything possible to prevent anything of the sort happening again.

Brian Grazer

The mystery, the excitement, the unpredictability has vanished. Of course, I'm as guilty as the rest.

Ernest Becker

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

Ernest Becker

Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.

Kris Allen

For me, my guilty pleasure is that if I don't want to do anything one day, I won't. I'll just sit around, not shower, hardly even eat, and just watch TV.

Buchi Emecheta

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

Bruno Mars

I definitely don't plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

James Dickey

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

Kris Carr

Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.

Gregory Maguire

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

Jerry Bridges

Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

Ian Mcewan

Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence

Horace

God has joined the innocent with the guilty.

Ronald Williams

If he's guilty of anything, he's guilty of being neglectful.

Iyanla Vanzant

You can't look outside of yourself. You must look within yourself, and address all of the things that are going on within you, and clear out the things that are not useful. Whether it's fear or anger or shame or guilt or whatever it is - clean that stuff up.

Ingrid Bergman

I always felt guilty. My whole life.

Leon Morris

To put it bluntly and plainly, if Christ is not my Substitute, I still occupy the place of a condemned sinner. If my sins and my guilt are not transferred to Him, if He did not take them upon Himself, then surely they remain with me. If He did not deal with my sins, I must face their consequences. If my penalty was not borne by Him, it still hangs over me. There is no other possibility.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

Publilius Syrus

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

Publilius Syrus

A guilty conscience never feels secure.

Publilius Syrus

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

Publilius Syrus

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.