"One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty." — Edward Coke

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• Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of… — Hannah Arendt
• Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
• Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if… — Saint Augustine
• A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked… — Honore de Balzac
• I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time… — Antonio Banderas
• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as… — Saint Basil
• He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard… — Samuel Adams
• It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. — William Blackstone
• Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. — Jorge Luis Borges
• Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved… — Tammy Bruce
• Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of… — George W. Bush
• Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the… — Tony Campolo

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