Ethics Quote by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford

“Wherever the idea of guilt, the fear of sin prevails, the mind becomes traitor to the body: "I know him not and will have…

— Various

“But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all human beings…

— Franz Kafka

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury,…

— William Shakespeare

“Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.”

— Nicholas Rowe

He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind.

— Thomas Creech

He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.

— Juvenal

“He took a mental picture of this moment’s happy scene to carry with him into the darkness of that dreadful place where he had…

— Elizabeth Garden

“A guilty conscience made for an unquiet mind.”

— Miranda Davis

“Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt.”

— Jack Henry Abbott

“He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame…

— Oscar Wilde

“Every priest who hears confessions is, by definition, an accessory to ever crime he hears about and does not report to the authorities.”

— David Silverman

“Oh, I know, I know that heart, that wild but grateful heart, gentlemen of the jury! It will bow before your mercy; it thirsts…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky