Quote by Hilary Mantel Download Open image ““He needs guilty men. So he has found men who are guilty. Though perhaps not guilty as charged.”” — Hilary Mantel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the guilty one is not the person who has committed the crime, but the person who has created the possibility for it to… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
“When you give decision that the guilty is not guilty, only then will the guilty become not guilty.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The only guilt of the victims, he thought, had been that they accepted it as guilt.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Convictions and the man--it seems they're two different things in many ways. Maybe in many ways I'm guilty before them!...We're all guilty, we're all… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I am innocent! But only because the opportunity to partake in an activity that would render me guilty has not presented itself.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The hunter is among the most innocent of men; living in the moment makes him feel pure. When he returns in the evening, his… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“But what would happen … I mean, what would be so awful … if they did meet up?” “Why, it would be like the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me. It… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“He wants to say, because Anne is not a carnal being, she is a calculating being, with a cold slick brain at work behind… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
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“But my sins are my strength, he thinks; the sins I have done, that others have not even found the opportunity of committing. I… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image