Best 367 quotes in «guilty quotes» category

The marvel of marvels is not that God, in His infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that He has elected any.

The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to the guilty.

There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.

There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it.

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.

The thing is, whenever I see Hillary Clinton, I feel like I have to vote for her. She makes me feel guilty because I feel like I should vote for her so that she'll feel better about herself because she'd been in such a bad marriage.

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

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.

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

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

there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.

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

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.

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.