Guilty Quotes - Page 24

• Before the whole world, I accuse you, German intellectuals, you non-Nazis, as those truly guilty of all these Nazi crimes, all this lamentable breakdown of a great people - a destruction which shames the whole white race.

  Bronislaw Huberman

  Race, White, People

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• Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

  Andy Griffith

  Men, Law, Innocent

  "Fictional character: Sheriff Taylor". "The Andy Griffith Show", blogs.chicagotribune.com.

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• If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Integrity, Teaching, Men

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• Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

  Max Lucado

  Relationship, Punishment, Guilt

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2013

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• When I die, I will no be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves.

  Ntozake Shange

  Girl, Emotional, Thinking

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• We [should not] make the mistake of thinking that marriage will provide the ultimate satisfaction for which we all hunger. To assume so would be to be guilty of blasphemy. Only God satisfies the hungry heart. Marriage is but one of the channels He uses to enable us to taste how deeply satisfying His thirst-quenching grace can be.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Marriage, God, Christian

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• Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you - and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Prayer, Blessed, Sacrifice

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• And what have we now in Germany? A land of bankers and car-makers. Even our great army has gone soft. Soldiers wear beards and question orders. I am not ashamed to say I believed in National Socialism. I still wear the Iron Cross with diamonds Hitler gave me. But today in all Germany you can't find a single person who voted Adolf Hitler into power. Many Germans feel guilty about the war. But they don't explain the real guilt we share - That we lost.

  Hanna Reitsch

  Real, War, Army

  "The first astronaut: tiny, daring Hanna" by Ron Laytner in The Deseret News (pp. C1+, 12C), February 19, 1981.

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• Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.

  Judith Thurman

  Fashion, Sisterhood, Long

  "Caring about clothes" by Judith Thurman, www.newyorker.com. September 25, 2014.

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• I want to learn how to be more thankful for what I am, than guilty for what I'm not.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Want

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• The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in the destiny of [humanity] as a whole and in the destiny of their city in particular; for their acts in which freedom was united with destiny have contributed to the destiny in which they participate. They are guilty, not of committing the crimes of which their group is accused, but of contributing to the destiny in which these crimes happened.

  Paul Tillich

  Destiny, Cities, Humanity

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• I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. - Julia Louis

  Alfred Dreyfus

  House, Feelings, Guilt

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• Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with an open heart and the willingness not to instantly try to get ground under our feet. For instance, if what we're feeling is rage, we usually assume that there are only two ways to relate to it. One is to blame others. Lay it all on somebody else; drive all blames into everyone else. The other alternative is to feel guilty about our rage and blame ourselves.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Pain, Heart

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• I am not guilty, I am innocent.

  Saddam Hussein

  Innocence, Innocent, Not Guilty

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• When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

  Charlotte Lennox

  Innocence, Innocent, Found

  Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.97

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• In salvation, God both declares us guilty and pays our debt. Only he can satisfy his own requirements. A savior less than God would be disqualified; God must do it himself.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  God, Would Be, Debt

  Erwin W. Lutzer “The Doctrines That Divide: A Fresh Look at the Historic Doctrines That Separate Christians”, Kregel Publications

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• Having plead guilty, I do not believe that I am any different than the vast majority of the members of Congress.

  Dan Rostenkowski

  Stupid, Humorous, Believe

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• Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.

  Robert Nozick

  Suicide, Children, Philosophical

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• Dogs would make totally incompetent criminals. If you could somehow get a group of dogs to understand the concept of the Kennedy assassination, they would all immediately confess to it. Whereas you'll never see a cat display any kind of guilty behavior, despite the fact that several cats were seen in Dallas on the grassy knoll area, not that I wish to start rumors.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Cat, Wish

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• The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people. The Rulers who are guilty of such an encroachment, exceed the commission from which they derive their authority and are Tyrants. The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them, and are slaves.

  James Madison

  Rights, Government, Law

  James Madison (1867). “1769-1793”, p.163

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• Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it, or neglected to fill up each part of it with duty to the utmost of my ability and capacity

  David Brainerd

  Thinking, Compromise, Sin

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.277

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• And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.

  Julianna Baggott

  Art, Dirty, Book

  "Novelist Walks Into a Bar or Facebook or Wherever" by Julianna Baggott, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2011.

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• I feel guilty when people say I'm the greatest on the scene. What's good or bad doesn't matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn't mean a damn, it's your talents and feelings that matter. You've got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you've got to know what goes between the notes.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Mean, Thinking, Views

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• Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Law, People

  "The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903.

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• We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Moon, Guilt

  William Shakespeare (2008). “King Lear: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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