Guilty Quotes · Page 21

Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.

— C. A. Bartol

I find a very guilty pleasure in dark themes and vibes, and finding where the transcending nature of awareness meets this darkness.

— Mike Scheidt

Basically what's happening is I'm pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply.

— Alan Cinis

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

— Lysa TerKeurst

I really like The Cars. They're just so over the top and super pop, but I don't feel guilty. I'm proud of…

— Mitski

“Those who are the least guilty are the ones who feel most at fault.”

— Barbara Nickless

Just proportionately, statistically, one in three women are going to have an abortion. They're not all going to feel guilty.

— Caitlin Moran

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

— Max Lucado

My great crime wasn't refusing to represent an innocent man; my great crime was imagining that there was some path to racial…

— Michelle Alexander

So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept…

— Sara Gruen

Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but…

— Alessandro Manzoni

When I'm fishing, I feel guilty that I'm not writing, and when I'm writing, I feel guilty that I'm not fishing. But…

— Raymond Carver

The only faults considered grave are the following: not respecting the rights of one's neighbor, letting oneself be paralyzed by fear, feeling…

— Paulo Coelho

I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was…

— Carrie Underwood

“He was never entirely sure what financial services meant. It seemed to cover a spectrum from innocent to guilty and then extremely…

— Kate Atkinson

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all…

— Michel Foucault

[T]he guilty as well as the innocent are entitled to due process of law. They are entitled to a fair trial. They…

— Harry S. Truman

For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in,…

— Gary Panter

Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then…

— Malcolm X

In 'The Next Three Days,' even though it was a prison breakout movie, I was asking myself, 'What would I do? How…

— Paul Haggis

I've always been monogamous - [within it] I've been in love with people, but very platonically. For me, monogamous love is about…

— Charlotte Rampling

I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was…

— Bette Davis

It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and…

— Socrates

Just five days now before Donald Trump becomes president of the United States after the most intense week yet of this transition.It…

— Donald Trump

“We’re all guilty of something. Dig deep enough and you’ll find whatever you need.”

— London Miller

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

— Nelson Algren

To be remembered by name for a character, with a sort of guilty joy, is... aw man, it's marvellous.

— Paterson Joseph

All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just…

— Andy Warhol

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

— Piers Anthony

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

— Aberjhani

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

— Charles Peguy

A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.

— Alan Dershowitz

You need to be able to defend. It's massively important, and at Arsenal, we've sometimes been guilty of forgetting that.

— Jack Wilshere

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

— Gordon Clark

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

— Dolores Ibarruri

It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against…

— Mahatma Gandhi

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

— Harold S. Kushner

I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a…

— John Quincy Adams

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

— Jock Sturges