Father Quote by Julie Berry

There is no life without guilt anyway, at least in the Western world. I think in other civilizations it might be different but if…

— Pascal Bruckner

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

— Anais Nin

“When exactly did punishing the guilt became more important then helping the innocent”

— D

No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are…

— Diana Peterfreund

Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson.

— Frederick Lenz

Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point…

— Philip K. Dick

Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what…

— John Milton

“We were laughing but I know that we were afraid of those who loved us most. Our parents resorted to the lash the way…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

— John Adams

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

— Ernest Becker

We were not born with guilt nor obligation. When you give in to guilt, you endorse it.

— Anita Moorjani

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very…

— Hannah Arendt