best quotations about
Guilt |
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Quotations
 | A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 82 likes |
 | There are no innocent victims. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher 17 likes |
 | Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 13 likes |
 | Forgive me now – tomorrow I may no longer feel guilty. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-2025, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 8 likes |
 | He who helps the guilty, shares the crime. — Publilius Syrus, 1st cent. AD, Roman author of maxims 8 likes |
 | There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 7 likes |
 | We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. — Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004, American President [1981-1989] 5 likes |
 | Who profits by a sin has done the sin. — Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher 5 likes |
 | “Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone”. It’s a trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 5 likes |
 | God would be unjust if we were not guilty. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 5 likes |
 | There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 4 likes |
 | If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. — Cardinal Richelieu, 1585-1642, French cardinal & Prime minister 4 likes |
 | Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty. — Aleister Crowley, 1875-1945, British magician & occultist, 4 likes |
 | Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Henry IV 3 likes |
 | Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 3 likes |
 | It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. — Molière, 1622-1673, French playwright 3 likes |
 | The left claims that the guilty party in a conflict is not the one who wants to take another person’s goods, but the one who defends his own. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 1 likes |
 | We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did, but we are all responsible for what somebody else did. — Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker 1 likes |
 | A husband, like a government, should never confess wrongdoing. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 1 likes |
 | Altruism is often an alibi. — Jean Rostand, 1894-1977, French scientist & philosopher 1 likes |
 | Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. — Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer 1 likes |
| The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself. — Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer 1 likes |
| We all have our particular preferences. Mine is gentle sex, the kind in which a man takes forever before he touches you down there. But most people are so guilty about sex that they want the crime and the punishment built in. — Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer 1 likes |
 | Any people who have been persecuted for two thousand years must be doing something wrong. — Henry Kissinger, 1923-2023, American politician 1 likes |
 | It’s amazing how much punishment we can take. — Philip Roth, 1933-2018, American writer 1 likes |
 | No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it. — Stefan Zweig, 1881-1942, Austrian writer 1 likes |
 | To benefit from avoiding a wrong is a way of being guilty. — Marguerite Yourcenar, 1903-1987, French writer 1 likes |
 | Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. — Plautus, c. 254-184 BC, Roman playwright 1 likes |
 | An unfaithful woman is never guilty of her infidelities, only of the infidelities her husband has learned of. — Frédéric Dard, 1921-2000, French writer 1 likes |
 | We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. — Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, Bohemian writer 1 likes |
 | “I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 1 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Your very silence is as good as a confession. Αυτό δε τo σιγάν ομολογούντος εστί σου. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Iphigeneia at Aulis 11 likes |
Proverbs
 | The guilty conscience is a secret enemy. — Indian proverb 8 likes |
