Guilty Quotes - Page 14

• If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing.

  George Allen

  Acceptance, Feelings, Pay

  George Allen (2010). “What Washington Can Learn From the World of Sports”, p.45, Regnery Publishing

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• All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

  David R. Brower

  Technology, Innocent, Should

  "The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century". Book by Ronald Bailey, reason.com. July 21, 2015.

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• One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted

  Herman Bavinck

  Men, Common, Sin

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• We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty

  Gordon Clark

  Wicked, Guilt, Sin

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• I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Children, Abortion, Suffering

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• We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Hate, Hatred, Encounters

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• Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

  Lucretius

  Blow, Mind, Dungeons

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• For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.

  Saint Augustine

  Suicide, Suicidal, Hands

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9332, Aeterna Press

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• It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer the deepest remorse for an undetected crime, but he will not blush... It is not the sense of guilt, but the thought that others think or know us to be guilty which crimsons the face.

  Charles Darwin

  Regret, Men, Emotional

  Charles Darwin (1874). “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals”, p.332

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Guilt, Shame, Shameful

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

  Ben Jonson

  Guilt, Shame, Rage

  "Volpone; or, The fox. Catiline his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair. Sejanus his fall".

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• There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

  Albert Camus

  Guilt, May, Shame

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.67, Vintage

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• You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Night, Men

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case, end of report. Your birth certificate is proof of guilt.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Tired, Guilt

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• In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know now that some white people are truly sincere, that some truly are capable of being brotherly toward a black man. The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites made blanket indictments against blacks.

  Malcolm X

  Past, Men, White

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.369, Ballantine Books

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• Some people try to get out of jury duty by lying. You don't have to lie. Tell the judge the truth. Tell him you'd make a terrific juror because you can spot guilty people.

  George Carlin

  Lying, People, Judging

  "George Carlin: What Am I Doing in New Jersey?". TV Special, www.imdb.com. June 12, 1988.

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• If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.

  Jaclyn Smith

  Perfect, Feels, Reasonable

  Twitter post from Dec 5, 2017

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• To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and deliberately inflicting suffering on that creature, we are guilty, whether it be human or animal.

  Jane Goodall

  Pain, Science, Animal

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• A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Honesty, Long, Solitude

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• Before you judge me... I plead guilty

  Lil Wayne

  Rap, Judging, Judge Me

  "Wit Me". Song by T.I., Lil Wayne, May 21, 2013.

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• You weren't born guilty. You were born bold and playful. Then you forgot who you are and what you deserve. When you remember who you were before you learned to apologize for asking, you'll have everything you want.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Asking, Want

  Alan H. Cohen (2011). “How Good Can It Get?: What I Learned from the Richest Man in the World”, p.39, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

  William O. Douglas

  Liberty, Citizens, Libertarian

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• Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

  William Ralph Inge

  Beautiful, Cousin, Animal

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• There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other.

  Sarah Polley

  Thinking, Trying, Together

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