Best 367 quotes in «guilty quotes» category

This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

Though liberals have portrayed themselves throughout the past several decades as champions of the homeless, they are actually guilty of having created and perpetuated their condition.

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

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

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

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

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are - you're innocent until you're proven guilty. We have all these things.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation.

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?

What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.

When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

Whenever my country has something bad happening I feel guilty for not being there. It's weird.

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty. I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well.

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.

Women are not taught to get a massage or do anything for ourselves because it makes us feel extraordinarily guilty. But the more we can fill ourselves up with things that make us happy, the happier we'll be, the happier our children will be, the more we have to give, and the more loving we'll be.

Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

You know that question: What do you do when you think the client's guilty? The real question is: What you do when you think a client's innocent?

You don't care if I'm guilty or not. You gonna make sure I go to jail for life.

You know, in Saudi Arabia, you're innocent until proven Jewish. Female. Guilty! They're guilty!

You know when things are bad when you feel guilty for being rude to vampires. Jacob B. Ch.14

You are not guilty of anything until you are charged and tried.

You can't remain inactive in the face of injustice without, to some extent, being guilty of it.

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

You`ve got David Petraeus who, yes, did, you know, something for which he pleaded guilty.

You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you.  You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.

You stopped looking for the truth...I'd guess that's a sin we've all been guilty of.

Zac Efron would make us feel guilty for eating big dinners. He'd say, 'Do you really want to eat those carbs?' It was like, 'Thanks a lot!'

You won't be caught off guard and you won't feel guilty, because you'll be spending money that you've allocated for the occasion.

Before you reprimand or condemn people on a particular act, make sure you have worked on yourself overtime such that you can't be found guilty of such act; if not you will be a victim of your own laws and rules