Guilty Quotes

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So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire.… — Dorothy Day
The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be… — Wendell Berry
I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to… — Ester Dean
I've always been monogamous - [within it] I've been in love with people, but very platonically. For me, monogamous love is about learning how to… — Charlotte Rampling
Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were… — Neal Stephenson
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will. — Seneca the Younger
More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot
It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty? — Publilius Syrus
A guilty conscience never feels secure. — Publilius Syrus
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures,… — Eric Hoffer
ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This… — Ambrose Bierce
I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty,… — Gloria Steinem
A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected. — Samuel Johnson
My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. — John Dryden
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch,… — John Dryden
For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. — Juvenal
Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender — Juvenal
Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,… — William Cowper
The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty. — Ashleigh Brilliant

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