best quotations about
Guilt |
| 28 quotes | Visits: 4,142 |
Quotations
 | A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 81 likes |
 | Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 12 likes |
 | Forgive me now – tomorrow I may no longer feel guilty. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 7 likes |
 | He who helps the guilty, shares the crime. — Publilius Syrus, 1st cent. AD, Roman author of maxims 7 likes |
 | There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 6 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] 4 likes |
 | Who profits by a sin has done the sin. — Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher 4 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 4 likes |
 | God would be unjust if we were not guilty. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 4 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 3 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, 3 likes |
 | Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Henry IV 2 likes |
 | Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 2 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. |
 | 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. |
 | A husband, like a government, should never confess wrongdoing. |
 | Altruism is often an alibi. |
 | Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. |
| The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself. |
| 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. |
 | Any people who have been persecuted for two thousand years must be doing something wrong. |
 | It’s amazing how much punishment we can take. |
 | No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it. |
 | To benefit from avoiding a wrong is a way of being guilty. |
 | 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. |
 | “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.” |
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 10 likes |
Proverbs
 | The guilty conscience is a secret enemy. — Indian proverb 5 likes |
