Guilty Quotes - Page 13

• 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 Wiesel

  Mean, Holocaust, Trials

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• Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

  Horace

  Judging, Judgement, Internet

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• If we doubt that the foundation for inner work is compassion for self and self-honoring behavior, we need only remind ourselves that the opposite approach, feeling guilty or judging ourselves has never really worked.

  John Earle

  Inspirational, Compassion, Opposites

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• In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the new British armies at the outbreak of the Great War, but it must, in their honour and fairness to their memories, be said that they were motivated by the highest purpose, and died in their tens of thousands in Flanders and Gallipoli, believing that they were giving their lives in the cause of human liberty everywhere, including Ireland.

  Sean Lemass

  Memories, War, Believe

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• A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

  Jakob Dylan

  Wisdom, Mean, Guilty Conscience

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• We are all guilty in someone's eyes. More so our own.

  Lance Henriksen

  Wisdom, Eye

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• Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die... The legislation couldn't reform it. Lawmakers won't repeal it. I won't stand for it. I had to act... I am commuting the sentences of all death row inmates.

  George Ryan

  Animal, Errors, Punishment

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• But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty

  Delia Smith

  Football, Passionate, Helping

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• I suppose I felt guilty not to be doing something more important, more political. So in a way I am trying to use the company for these other activities.

  Miuccia Prada

  Political, Important, Trying

  "Power of One | Miuccia Prada’s Circle of Influence" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.nytimes.com. May 27, 2013.

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• If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.

  Sherry Turkle

  Self, Mind, Fascination

  Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.29, MIT Press

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• We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Justice

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• There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other.

  Sarah Polley

  Thinking, Trying, Together

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• I think sometimes we can use spirituality as a vehicle to go closer to the things that frighten us and sometimes we can use it as a shield. I'm guilty of it too. I think spiritual words can do one or the other. Because when I hear people say, in a religion setting, 'Glory,' 'Praise the Lord,' 'Hallelujah,' but it doesn't mean anything, those are actually words that distance us from God, ironically enough.

  Jon Foreman

  Spiritual, Distance, Mean

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• In view of the vast size of the occupied areas in the East the forces available for establishing security in these areas will be sufficient only if all resistance is punished not by legal prosecution of the guilty but by the spreading of such terror by the occupying power as is appropriate to eradicate every inclination to resist among the population. The competent commanders must find the means of keeping order not by demanding more security forces but by applying suitable Draconian methods.

  Alfred Jodl

  Mean, Views, Order

  "The Nuremberg Trial and International Law". Book by George Ginsburgs, p. 163 (July 23, 1941 order issued to the German Arm), 1990.

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• My great crime wasn't refusing to represent an innocent man; my great crime was imagining that there was some path to racial justice that did not include those we view as 'guilty'.

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Innocent Man, Views

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• We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Shame, Shame And Guilt, Feels

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• Before the whole world, I accuse you, German intellectuals, you non-Nazis, as those truly guilty of all these Nazi crimes, all this lamentable breakdown of a great people - a destruction which shames the whole white race.

  Bronislaw Huberman

  Race, White, People

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• Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

  Andy Griffith

  Men, Law, Innocent

  "Fictional character: Sheriff Taylor". "The Andy Griffith Show", blogs.chicagotribune.com.

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• If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Integrity, Teaching, Men

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• Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

  Max Lucado

  Relationship, Punishment, Guilt

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2013

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• When I die, I will no be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves.

  Ntozake Shange

  Girl, Emotional, Thinking

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• We [should not] make the mistake of thinking that marriage will provide the ultimate satisfaction for which we all hunger. To assume so would be to be guilty of blasphemy. Only God satisfies the hungry heart. Marriage is but one of the channels He uses to enable us to taste how deeply satisfying His thirst-quenching grace can be.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Marriage, God, Christian

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• Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you - and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Prayer, Blessed, Sacrifice

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• And what have we now in Germany? A land of bankers and car-makers. Even our great army has gone soft. Soldiers wear beards and question orders. I am not ashamed to say I believed in National Socialism. I still wear the Iron Cross with diamonds Hitler gave me. But today in all Germany you can't find a single person who voted Adolf Hitler into power. Many Germans feel guilty about the war. But they don't explain the real guilt we share - That we lost.

  Hanna Reitsch

  Real, War, Army

  "The first astronaut: tiny, daring Hanna" by Ron Laytner in The Deseret News (pp. C1+, 12C), February 19, 1981.

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• Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.

  Judith Thurman

  Fashion, Sisterhood, Long

  "Caring about clothes" by Judith Thurman, www.newyorker.com. September 25, 2014.

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