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Guilty Quotes
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Short guilty quotes from writers, poets and thinkers. Copy one, share it, or download it as an image.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.
Theodore RooseveltTheodore Roosevelt God knew what we were before conversion – wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion – weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
JuvenalJuvenal It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
MaimonidesMaimonides Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch My mother could make anybody feel guilty – she used to get letters of apology from people she didn’t even know.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson I feel so guilty about the state of young people today. And I say that because our generation fought for everything. We fought to sit down at a counter, to sit on a bus. They were left with nothing to fight for.
Cicely TysonCicely Tyson I suppose, yes, I’ve been guilty of provocation but it’s also just common sense marketing – put a bottle of scent in a woman’s cleavage, or between her thighs – and men will notice.
Tom FordTom Ford I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora