Not Guilty Quotes

• A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, Failure

  "Le Siecle de Louis XIV (The Age of Louis XIV)". Book by Voltaire (Chapter VI), 1751.

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• On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Guilt, Rolling

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Forgiveness, Time

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.

  Audre Lorde

  Communication, Ignorance, Names

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.130, Crossing Press

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• Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

  Veronica Roth

  Sad, Grief, Sorrow

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• It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

  Oscar Wilde

  Keeping Secrets, Giving, Guilt

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 8 (1891)

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• Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Guilt, May, Sin

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• The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

  Victor Hugo

  Darkness, Guilt, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Misérables: Fantine”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, Guilt, Answers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

  Audre Lorde

  Guilt, Action, Response

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.130, Crossing Press

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• He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.

  Publilius Syrus

  Helping, Guilty, Crime

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

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• I'm absolutely, 100 percent, not guilty.

  O. J. Simpson

  Sports, Guilty, Percent

  Plea at murder trial, Los Angeles, Cal., 22 July 1994

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• I am not guilty, I am innocent.

  Saddam Hussein

  Innocence, Guilty, Innocent

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• Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Guilt

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• The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

  Maxim Gorky

  Beautiful, Money, Business

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• Absolutely, one hundred percent, not guilty.

  O. J. Simpson

  Guilty, Hundred, Percent

  "A Piece of the Action" by David Nicholson, www.washingtonpost.com. November 3, 1996.

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• Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously... and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Christian, Criminals, Finals

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.87, Vintage

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• Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.

  Joseph Estrada

  Firsts, Constitution, Guilty

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• Once again, as a flawed evaluator of dictators and failed strategist who has permitted Russia back in as a major player in the Middle East, is Hillary Clinton guilty or not guilty?

  Chris Christie

  Player, Russia, Middle East

  The Republican National Convention Speech in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Criminals, Guilty, Betray

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.134, Vintage

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• Due to the oath I swore to the constitution when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, by virtue of the universal human right to self defense, in accordance with the Supreme Court case, D.C. vs. Heller, which affirmed that the statutes under which I am being charged are unconstitutional and thus null and void, and on behalf of all freedom loving Americans, I plead not guilty.

  Adam Kokesh

  Marine, Self, United States

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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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• The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

  LaToya Jackson

  Art, Mean, Trials

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• I have been accused of something I'm not guilty of. How do you prove a negative? No matter what we discuss here today, I'm never going to have my name restored. But I've got to try and set the record straight.

  Jim Lehrer

  Names, Trying, Negative

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• It's a deal that will lead to a nuclear Iran, an Israel that will be less safe and secure, and a much more dangerous Middle East. Let's ask it: Hillary Clinton, as an inept negotiator of the worst nuclear arms deal in American history. Is she guilty or not guilty?

  Chris Christie

  Israel, Nuclear Iran, Safe

  "Chris Christie: 'It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now'". Chris Christie's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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