Quotes about guilt

"Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself."

Beauvoir, Simone De on guilt   

"I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this."

Crosby, David on guilt   

"The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer."

Ellis, Dr. Albert on guilt   

"He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level."

Fox, Charles James on guilt
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"It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape."

Jefferson, Thomas on guilt   

"If you commit a crime, you're guilty."

Limbaugh, Rush on guilt   

"Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many."

Ovid on guilt   

"Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on guilt   

"Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings."

Rowe, Nicholas on guilt   

"Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality."

Ruskin, John on guilt   

"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."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on guilt
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"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer."

Shakespeare, William on guilt
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"Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal."

South, Bishop Robert on guilt   

"Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on guilt   

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

de Mello, Anthony on guilt