Guilty Quotes - Page 18

• No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Innocent, Governing

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• That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Innocent Person, Justice, Long

  Letter to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 Mar. 1785

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• A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty,
  'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't
  feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own,
  outside of husband and children.

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Husband, Selfish

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• Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Fall, Compassion, Hands

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.338

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• It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

  Livy

  Men, Trials, Should

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 4,

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• I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that sometimes the most offended have not seen others being offended?

  Judith Jamison

  Native American, African American, Gone

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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• Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Innocent, Priests

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.221, Penguin

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• Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.

  Alessandro Manzoni

  Heart, Men, Rights

  Alessandro Manzoni (1983). “The Betrothed”, p.54, Penguin UK

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• Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

  Bill Ayers

  Country, America, Bird

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• That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time

  Brian De Palma

  Girl, Dream, Strong

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• A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Sleep, Rainy Day, Lovely

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• I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court.

  Rand Paul

  America, Rights, Law

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Mar 06, 2013

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• Many people feel "guilty" about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Order, People, Feelings

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• If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.

  Eva Burrows

  Women, Growing, Demand

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• To be guilty of the sin of prayerlessness is to be guilty of the worst form of practical atheism. It is actually saying we can get along without His help while the evidence is very clear on every hand that we cannot. Could it be that the sin of prayerlessness steams from our unbelief that he is a living God who exercises direct influence on the affairs of men?

  Bruce Willis

  Prayer, Exercise, Men

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• A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.

  Eric Ripert

  Thinking, People, Guilt

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• If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.

  H. L. Mencken

  Golf, Men, White

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• I'm the guilty one for uttering those terrible, ugly words.

  Donald Sterling

  Racism, Ugly, Terrible

  Full transcript: Donald Sterling’s interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, www.insidesocal.com. May 13, 2014.

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• I'm just as guilty for not doing anything as I am for doing things. Not with case (the 1994 sexual abuse conviction), but just my life. I was so scared of this responsibility that I was running away from it. But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to be at me. They're going to come 100 percent.

  Tupac Shakur

  Running, Responsibility, Rapper

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• The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

  Publilius Syrus

  Funny, Humorous, Law

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• I think that in any argument about right or wrong in football, a reference to Don Revie's Leeds United is the nuclear option. There is, quite simply, nowhere to go after that. There has never been a more horrible football team. The Leeds of the Seventies were found guilty, week in, week out, of crimes against humanity.

  Giles Smith

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• People in office have to become models of correct behaviour. What they say and how they act should be beyond criticism. And when they commit the slightest mistake, they should quit their office on moral grounds without waiting to be proved guilty. Moral values must take centre stage in all walks of life.

  D. R. Karthikeyan

  Mistake, People, Office

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• He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.

  Publilius Syrus

  Helping, Crime, Share

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 139,

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• Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.

  Isaac Watts

  Friday, Sacrifice, Blood

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• Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on,
  First they're guilty, now they're gone!

  Chuck D

  Rap, Smell, Hip Hop

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

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