Guilty Quotes - Page 40

• In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they owed allegiance to a King and Kingdom from another world and a God from another sky, and that this God had invented the guilty and the dress, and had sent to be burnt alive who worships the Sun the Moon the Earth and the Rain that wets it.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Kings, Rain, Moon

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• We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Choices, Innocence, Innocent

  Archibald MacLeish (1958). “J. B.”

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• A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

  Carolyn Wells

  Mother, Guilt, Invention

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

  Sidney Hook

  Judging, Society, Liberty

  Sidney Hook (1987). “Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century”, Harpercollins

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• One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Liberty, Use, Coercion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must lay aside the doubt; and if he has not hitherto done so, he must confess it, at least, as it is before God. But the scrupulous, who have doubts about everything, must follow another rule: they must obey their confessor. When he tells them to conquer their doubts, and to act against scruples, they should obey with exactness; otherwise they will render themselves unable and unfit to perform any spiritual exercise.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Spiritual, Exercise, Offending

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• Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Compassion, Innocent Man

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Abortion, Pro Life, Soul

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• Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by sin, consider the poisons for abortion, and frequently die themselves along with it, and go to Hell guilty of three crimes: murdering themselves, committing adultery against Christ, and murder against their unborn child.

  St. Jerome

  Children, Abortion, Poison

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• A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to
  present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a
  candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion
  and/or euthanasia.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Evil, Abortion, Catholic

  Memorandum to Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington, D.C., 2004.

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• One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Forgiveness, Wisdom, Evil

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• Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the many things we have to be thankful for, not so we feel guilty about what we have that others don't, but to be genuinely grateful for our blessings.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Grateful, Blessing

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• Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Book, Library, Christianity

  Desiderius Erasmus (1974). “The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1 to 141, 1484-1500”, p.115, University of Toronto Press

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• I haven't felt the excitement for so many years. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. When we're back-stage and the lights go out, and the manic roar of the crowd begins, it does not affect me. The fact is, I can't fool you. It isn't fair to you or to me. The worst crime I can think of is to trick people by faking it, and pretending to be having 100% fun.

  Robert Hilburn

  Fun, Thinking, Light

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• We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

  Daryl Gates

  War, People, Liberty

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• Forgive me now - tomorrow I may no longer feel guilty.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Funny, Life, Hilarious

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• Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dirty, Practice, Play

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.

  Barbara Mertz

  Dog, Cat, Blame

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• We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation.

  Donald Alexander

  America, Liberty, Regulation

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• A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.

  David M. Raup

  Science, Innocent, Theory

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• Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

  Marquis de Sade

  Eye, Punishment, Humanity

  Sade (marquis de) (1965). “Selected letters”

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• Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

  Euripides

  Character, Discipline, Joy

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• If your pride leads you to boast,
  you will be doubly guilty,
  because your intelligence will have shown
  that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

  Ibn Hazm

  Wisdom, Islamic, Pride

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• But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

  Ernest Gaines

  Justice, Gentleman, Dying

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• "What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me to feel guilty, just as he wants her to feel guilty. Well, I'm not feeling guilty, Tante Lou. I didn't put him there. I do everything I know how to do to keep people like him from going there. He's not going to make me feel guilty."

  Ernest Gaines

  People, Feelings, Dying

  Ernest J. Gaines (2004). “A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel”, p.123, Vintage

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