Begets Quote by Robert Southey

“Because of the matrix of rampant horrors often described as overcriminalization, it is no longer possible for you to rely on your own conscience…

— James Duane

Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe…

— Samuel Johnson

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“among guilt-ridden criminals, first diagnosed”

— Eoin Colfer

“Guilt is an outward expression of self degradation. It is acceptance of one’s culpability, indiscretion, liability, sin, dereliction, and harm without resolving the crime,…

— Deborah Bravandt

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Successful guilt is the bane of society

— Publilius Syrus

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

— Geraldine Jewsbury

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

— Samuel Johnson

“Even if their guilt actually does produce a good action, it will be the saddest good action you’ll ever see, and it will be…

— Geoffrey Wood

One is often guilty by being too just.

— Pierre Corneille

“Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.”

— Iris Murdoch