Quotes about Guilt

Novelist, Poet

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Belief - Conscience - Friendship - Guilt - Hate - Ownership - World

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Henrik Ibsen

Designer, Poet, Playwright

...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

Guilt - Man - Sharing

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poet, Critic, Philosopher, Theologian

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

Guilt - Man

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Benjamin Franklin

Polymath, Founding Father of the United States

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Guilt - Innocence - Judging

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Hannah Arendt

Philosopher, Political Theorist

where everybody is guilty, nobody is.

Guilt

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Plato

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.

Activity - Difficulty - Guilt - Injustice - Strength - Thinking

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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.

Bravery - Guilt - Madness

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Malcolm X

Human Rights Activist

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

Earth - Guilt - Innocence - Mindset

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

Criminal - Guilt

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Alexandre Dumas

Novelist, playwright

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

Criminal - Guilt - Wishing

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

Bravery - Consciousness - Guilt - Intimidation

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

Crime - Guilt - Ignorance - Production

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Natural Philosopher, Diplomat, Civil Servant

Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.

Adulthood - Feelings - Guilt - Lie - Objectification - Parents - Poetry

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Alan Watts

Philosopher

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

Anxiety - Deal - Feelings - Guilt - Mindfulness

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John Quincy Adams

Former President of the United States

I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.

Accusing - Finding - Guilt - Judging

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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Affliction - Anxiety - Feelings - Guilt - Sharing - Sin - Taking

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman, Orator, Lawyer, Philosopher

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

Fortune - Greatness - Guilt - Man - State - Virtue

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman, Orator, Lawyer, Philosopher

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

Guilt

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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

The light of love drives away the darkness of guilt.

Guilt - Inspiration - Life

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Jimmy Carter

Former President of the United States

I have a lot of pleasures but I don't feel guilty about them.

Feelings - Guilt

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