Guilt Quote by D

“The reason is, because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished.”

— David McCullough

It's of more importance to community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished

— John Adams

“Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.”

— Iris Murdoch

“The only guilt of the victims, he thought, had been that they accepted it as guilt.”

— Ayn Rand

“Guilt is like a sore, endlessly fascinating, and the guilty party feels compelled to examine it and pick at it, so that it never…

— Stephen King

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

— Horace

“Somehow the sting of guilt was always more acute when there was a risk that she might get caught.”

— Frances Hardinge

“Guilt is the only affect I know of that does not diminish with time. Nor does the guilty conscience have any sense of priority…

— John Banville

“How can people be punished when they are innocent?”

— Paul Scott

“...guilt is often assumed before innocence can be proven.”

— Miguel Syjuco

“When guilt leads to good.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“Any attempt to ease guilt by justification is false. That the crimes of another appease none of one's own offenses. That, if one is…

— Frank Delaney