Guilty Quotes - Page 25

• A city built upon mud;
  A culture built upon profit;
  Free speech nipped in the bud,
  The minority always guilty.
  Why should I want to go back
  To you, Ireland, my Ireland?

  Louis MacNeice

  Cities, Culture, Bud

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.177, Faber & Faber

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• Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have absolutely no guilty pleasures at all. No graphic novels. No murder mysteries. My summer read is really no different from my winter read. I know many bookshops and magazines would have me believe that our summer forays are different, but literature is literature, and unfortunately snobbery is snobbery.

  Colum McCann

  Summer, Book, Reading

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• When Jesus wept, the falling tear
  in mercy flowed beyond all bound;
  when Jesus groaned, a trembling fear
  seized all the guilty world around.

  William Billings

  Jesus, Fall, Passion

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• There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are innocent until proven guilty, but survivors are guilty until proven innocent - at least in the eyes of the police.

  Emma Sulkowicz

  Eye, Class, Justice

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• You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he has done his homework. That kind of language is unacceptable.

  Dmitry Peskov

  Leadership, Education, Russia

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• Sometimes I feel very guilty, so I don't know if I am a clear example of a perfect father, because sometimes I also just punish myself, saying I'm not doing probably the right thing at this particular moment. It's a secret.

  Antonio Banderas

  Father, Perfect, Secret

  "Actor Antonio Banderas". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 18, 2011.

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• Martha Stewart was found guilty on all charges. You know what that means, stripes are in this year.

  Jay Leno

  Mean, Years, Stripes

  "This Week's 'The List' -- Martha Guilty", abcnews.go.com.

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• Earlier today, the jury at the Martha Stewart trial reached a verdict. Martha was found guilty on all charges. In a related story, there's a huge sale at K-Mart.

  Conan O'Brien

  Stories, Trials, Today

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• Earlier today Martha Stewart issued a statement saying 'I am innocent and will fight to clear my name.' Yeah, Martha then said 'I look forward to the day when people stop thinking I am guilty and get back to thinking I am cold and arrogant.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Fighting, Thinking, Names

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• I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Affliction, Bears, Guilty Conscience

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• American Taliban John Walker Lindh has pleaded guilty to two counts of terrorism and will face twenty years in prison. I guess that means his jihad is on ji-hold.

  Jay Leno

  Mean, Two, Years

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• For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, Believe, Guilty Conscience

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• When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Party, Feelings, Might

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• A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Grateful, Vices

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• It's sad to think that we've gotten to this, that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But what's even sadder is that some men make you feel guilty for looking.

  Terry McMillan

  Men, Thinking, Feels

  "How Stella lost her groove" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2005.

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• Saying "I feel guilty" is a mere form of words. Saying "I feel ashamed" is not.

  Mason Cooley

  Guilt, Shame, Form

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• If you belong to the underclass, you are already guilty.

  Mason Cooley

  Ifs

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• Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power, this story never would have been written. Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices. The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.

  Ida Tarbell

  Country, Business, Men

  Ida M. Tarbell (2009). “The History of the Standard Oil Company”, p.287, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We shall never want to serve God in our real and secret hearts if He looms in our subconscious mind as an arbitrary Dictator or a Spoil-sport, or as one who takes advantage of His position to make us poor mortals feel guilty and afraid. We have not only to be impressed by the "size" and unlimited power of God, we have to be moved to genuine admiration, respect, and affection, if we are ever to worship Him.

  John Bertram Phillips

  Sports, Real, Heart

  John Bertram Phillips (1964). “Your God is too small”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.

  Richard Stallman

  New York, Writing, Violence

  "MyDoom and You". www.gnu.org. 2004.

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• All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all its forms, but also for every variety of calisthenics, so that I still begrudge the trifling exertion needed to climb in and out of a bathtub, and hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Sports, Horse

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• When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no injustice, he is, perhaps, of all bad men the least injurious to society; the evil he does is properly nothing more than the omission of the good he might do. If, of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested, it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Hate, Men, Omission

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• Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.

  C. A. Bartol

  Self, Bars, Repentance

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• He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Friendship, Air, Names

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• To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

  W. H. Auden

  Mean, Choices, Guilt

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("The Guilty Vicarage"), (p. 157), 1962.

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