Be Guilty Quotes

#1. But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?

Jose Rizal

#2. God help us to be grateful for our blessings, never to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude, and to instill this same gratitude into the lives of our children.

Ezra Taft Benson

#3. People of color are actually no more likely to be guilty of drug crimes and many other offenses than whites.

Michelle Alexander

#4. Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.

Anthony Of Padua

#5. We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

Alison Lurie

#6. Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.

J.C. Ryle

#7. ... it's better in fact to be guilty of manslaughter than of fraud about what is fair and just.

Plato

#8. A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

Henri Poincare

#9. Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

William Ralph Inge

#10. To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

Nelson Algren

#11. May every one of us believe Him better, and have greater thoughts of Him, and never let us be guilty henceforth of confining, as it were, within iron bonds the limitless One of Israel.

Charles Spurgeon

#12. Keep the personal, personal and do not be guilty of spreading bad feelings.

John Patrick Hickey

#13. I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.

Charles Horton Cooley

#14. As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy ... I really tortured myself.

Mira Sorvino

#15. Our knowledge about ourselves is our least reliable knowledge. Yet, so thoroughly do we ordinarily champion our own cause that it is acknowledged effective to believe that a person who deems it impossible to any further champion his/her own cause must be guilty.

Jesse Ball

#16. Sometimes people can be guilty of not working at relationships and if it's not working, oof, that's it.

Rob James-Collier

#17. Having found the book which has a message for us, let us not be guilty of the folly of saying we have read it. We might as well say we have breakfasted, as if breakfasting on one day should last us for every day! The book that helps us deserves many readings, for assimilation comes by slow degrees.

Charlotte M. Mason

#18. Quite often ... these little guys, who might be making atomic weapons or who might be guilty of some human rights violation ... are looking for someone to listen to their problems and help them communicate.

Jimmy Carter

#19. Even the Middle Ages, which condemned and punished animals in due form, was in this way much closer to them than we are. They held them to be guilty: which was a way of honoring them. We take them for nothing, and it is on this basis that we are "human" with them.

Jean Baudrillard

#20. 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

#21. There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.

Steven Curtis Chapman

#22. If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.

Anatole France

#23. I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Piers Anthony

#24. Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.

Herman Melville

#25. No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.

Mahatma Gandhi

#26. Surely there must be something they had said, or done, surely there must be some mistake they had made, surely they must be guilty of something, some obscure crime, perhaps, of which they were not even aware.

Julie Otsuka

#27. People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.

Hal Sparks

#28. Although whites were more likely to be guilty of carrying drugs, they were far less likely to be viewed as suspicious, resulting in relatively few stops, searches, and arrests of whites. The

Michelle Alexander

#29. Man was not made to be guilty, sin is not interesting, the only ethics are those which lead man toward the greater things he carries in himself.

Charles Kaiser

#30. A child learns to be guilty when he is punished and scolded for damaging material objects

Sunday Adelaja

#31. But what I am beginning to suspect is that most guilty people reject the possibility of forgiveness not because it is too good to believe, but because they fear the responsibility forgiveness entails. It's hell to be guilty, but its worse to be responsible.

William Sloane Coffin

#32. So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

Bernhard Schlink

#33. I love dessert. I can't be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.

Martha Stewart

#34. In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.

C.S. Lewis

#35. In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.

Albert Camus

#36. To be guilty is to be innocent. Thus, to be innocent is to be guilty.

Frank Herbert

#37. It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#38. I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.

Nadine Gordimer

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

Archibald MacLeish

#40. If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

Albert Einstein

#41. He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

Jonathan Swift

#42. We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.

Joseph Addison

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

Desiderius Erasmus

#44. You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.

Tony Kushner

#45. Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.

Walter Scott

#46. Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.

Joyce Meyer

#47. If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience, and examine thy heart: if thou be guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction: make use of both; so shalt thou distil honey out of gall, and out of an open enemy create a secret friend.

Francis Quarles

#48. We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#49. With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

Kamala Harris

#50. But I'm not guilty," said K. "there's been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We're all human beings here, one like the other." "That is true" said the priest "but that is how the guilty speak

Franz Kafka

#51. He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only ...

Hannah More

#52. A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.

Michel De Montaigne

#53. I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

Eamon De Valera

#54. There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbors, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor [can] humility mitigate.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#55. The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

Jacques Lacan

#56. The greatest madness a man can be guilty of in this life, is to let himself die outright, without being slain by any person whatever, or destroyed by any other weapon than the hands of melancholy

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#57. To be poor in Annawadi, or in any Mumbai slum, was to be guilty of one thing or another.

Katherine Boo

#58. 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

#59. In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#60. Whoever says, 'You fool,' shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.
Matthew 5:22

Anonymous

#61. Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

Noah Webster

#62. From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one's desire (Seminar 7, 319)

Jacques Lacan

#63. It's not right because it just isn't. You can't go round making up evidence just because you're convinced someone is guilty. You can't be judge and jury; that's not your job. (Liz)

Stella Rimington

#64. I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

Brittany Murphy

#65. The Statesman who, knowing his instrument to be ready, and seeing War inevitable, hesitates to strike first is guilty of a crime against his country.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#66. If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.

H.L. Mencken

#67. The verdict of this court is that the accused are guilty of witchcraft. The maximum penalty the law allows is to be burned to death.However, in view of your previous good background I am disposed to be lenient. I therefore sentence you to be burned alive.

Richard Curtis

#68. The author says people are guilty of wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.

T.H. White

#69. If I have one special memory, it was when we recreated the trial of the Chicago Seven - and I'd known about it before - but this was a pivotal moment in my life. If my father had been found guilty of conspiracy, I wouldn't be here.

Troy Garity

#70. The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

Epicurus

#71. All saints should be judged guilty until proven innocent.

George Orwell

#72. Sometimes the guilty one is not the person who has committed the crime, but the person who has created the possibility for it to be committed.

Cristiane Serruya

#73. We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the Jews ended up wandering in the desert for forty years. If we were more grateful for what God has done for us, abasing ourselves would not be a problem.

Monica Johnson

#74. With tears of penitence and poignant, tender anguish, he will exclaim: 'Others are better than I, they wanted to save me, not to ruin me!' Oh, this act of mercy is so easy for you, for in the absence of anything like real evidence it will be too awful for you to pronounce: 'Yes, he is guilty.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#75. I'm guilty of being fascinated by gadgets and toys and technology, but any penny that I spend, I try to make it be a part of what I do for a living. Because then you are forwarding. You are forwarding that art, forwarding that career ahead.

Jeff Dunham

#76. I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with _Jurassic Park (1993). But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more. The difference between making Jaws (1975) 31 years ago and War of .

Steven Spielberg

#77. Authentic and free. The Gucci guilty woman is about living in the moment. She's a modern woman, someone who really owns herself and her sensuality. It's supposed to be a very empowering and sensual fragrance.

Evan Rachel Wood

#78. Somewhere within the concept of justice, the worst of the guilty must always be removed. I cannot divorce this, not completely. The people must have justice and so I want to reinstate and enshrine the blessed and holy guillotine!

Roseanne Barr

#79. All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

David R. Brower

#80. WILL YOU YIELD AND THIS AVOID, OR GUILTY IN DEFENSE BE THUS DESTROY'D?

William Shakespeare

#81. I can't be in touch with the Now, so now I'm feeling guilty about not being in touch with the Now.

Anonymous

#82. I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials.

Howard Dean

#83. No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.

Rand Paul

#84. If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty.

Dave Checketts

#85. 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

#86. A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.

Alan Dershowitz

#87. While total avoidance of the wayward brother is not necessarily instructed, it is the case that contact with the sinning brother or sister should be confined to interaction that would bring to mind the guilty party's sin and constantly urge the impenitent party to return to the fold.

Kyle Butt

#88. I feel like if I am physically and emotionally able to be at the theater, I will be there. I don't like not being there - I don't like playing hooky. I am just one of those people who feels really, really guilty if I am not there - maybe it's part of being Catholic.

Lea Salonga

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

Alexandre Dumas

#90. Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#91. I'm working 18 hour days and I'm feeling guilty not being able to be there when all those times I want to be mother.

Kate Hudson

#92. It's just how it is. What's wrong with talking about it? Mum said if women don't learn to self-orgasm at your stage of development, they can miss out on a whole world of pleasure further down the track. There's nothing to be ashamed or guilty about, if you are healthy in your thoughts about it.

Rachael Treasure

#93. You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

Jessica Mitford

#94. Nor shall our cups make any guilty men;
But at our parting, we will be, as when
We innocently met.

Ben Jonson

#95. The political criminal is the victim of an attempt of a more or less despotic government to preserve its own stability. He is not necessarily guilty of an unsocial offense; he simply tries to overturn a certain political order which may itself be anti-social.

Emma Goldman

#96. These ideas are, perhaps, too far stretched; but still it must be acknowledged, that, by representing the Deity as so intelligible and comprehensible, and so similar to a human mind, we are guilty of the grossest and most narrow partiality, and make ourselves the model of the whole universe.

David Hume

#97. Sometimes things can be a guilty pleasure, but with 'Idol,' everyone talks about it like it's a real thing; they argue over who's gonna win ... There's no laughing at it.

Andy Kindler

#98. Pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

Catharine Beecher

#99. I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice.

Robin McKinley

#100. We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

Arthur Erickson