Crime Quote by Marcel Proust

“Ultimately, we forgive others in order to free ourselves.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“there is no collective guilt,...guilt is individual, like salvation.”

— Frederick Forsyth

“To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves.”

— Bryant McGill

“I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.”

— Pat Conroy

“If a man would commit an inexpiable offence against any society, large or small, let him be successful. They will forgive any crime except…

— Charles Dickens

“In every way, un-forgiveness makes us the victim—”

— Jan Karon

“(Evil people) do not believe in forgiveness. Their transgressions are either punished or not punished. That is the only result that matters.”

— Daniel McHugh

“We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless in the principle of forgiveness to the powerful.”

— Christopher Hayes

“We don’t have the right to forgive people; it is not only about our kindness or gentleness, it is about keeping the justice stable.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“after all, the identity of the one who must forgive is actually founded on the very fact of having been wounded.”

— David Whyte

“Does our lack of forgiveness really punish them, or does it just make our hearts hard and our lives unpleasent.”

— Noah Levine

“But just as we do not forgive for others, we also do not forgive for God.”

— Desmond Tutu