Culpable Quotes

#1. We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#2. A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

Victor Hugo

#3. I watch fights and I often feel morally compromised by it. I feel like I'm morally culpable for what's occurring because I'm the spectator and ultimately footing the bill for the spectacle.

Jonathan Gottschall

#4. It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

Will Durant

#5. If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.

David Attenborough

#6. If there is an angel who records the sorrows of men as well as their sins, he knows how many and deep are the sorrows that spring from false ideas for which no man is culpable.

George Eliot

#7. Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Victor Hugo

#8. I have since learned that there are those who try to make others feel guilty simply by acting as though they are culpable. I

Jessica Dotta

#9. Not seeing the divine glory of Christ in the gospel is blameworthy. It is not an innocent blindness, but a culpable love of darkness. "They

John Piper

#10. I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

Lisa Gansky

#11. It is the creators of the harami (bastards) who are culpable, not the harami, whose only sin is being born.

Khaled Hosseini

#12. I think it is true to say only an inferior person has rights. When you hear a person talking about his rights, you may be sure he is trying to gain by dint of shouting something which he lacks ( or had and lost) by reason of some culpable deficiency in himself.

Flann O'Brien

#13. I can say that I have not done any culpable violation of the constitution.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#14. Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#15. Let us realize that we are sinners and have much to explate, while others less culpable than we are suffer more than we do.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#16. A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.

Edgard Varese

#17. Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another color?
Have you ever committed culpable homicide?
Have you ever bombed anything?
Have you ever murdered anyone?
Have you ever kidnapped anyone?

L. Ron Hubbard

#18. Teach the ignorant as much as you possibly can: society is culpable for not giving instruction gratis, and is responsible for the night it produces. This soul s full of darkness, and sin is committed, but the guilt person is not the man who commits the sin, but he who produces the darkness.

Victor Hugo

#19. He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.

Akiva Ben Joseph

#20. The heroines in 'That's What She Said' are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpable and not really concerned about being acceptable to the audience in any traditional sense, which for me is what makes them all the more gorgeous. And the fearless truth of that is what makes it funny.

Carrie Preston

#21. The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.

Sophie Swetchine

#22. Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

Vikram Seth

#23. Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.

Francis Quarles

#24. It is a sin of the soul to force young people into opinions ... but it is culpable neglect not to impel young people into experiences.

Kurt Hahn

#25. I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

Isaac Barrow

#26. Guilt is more commonly felt by the innocent than by the culpable,

P.D. James

#27. None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.

Norm MacDonald

#28. We don't think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That's true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.

Ron Paul

#29. We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.

Jim Caviezel

#30. I feel like I have to share whatever I can. You're culpable if you don't act.

Brad Pitt

#31. Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not exert on us a culpable attraction? Or must we, leaning over the deck and watching the shores glide by, move forever onward?

Andre Gide

#32. Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.

Steve Carell

#33. This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions

Donald E. Williams Jr.

#34. At this stage they were killers. I mean this stage in our mutually culpable history. Who

Peter Heller

#35. We are at a turning point; the exploitation has now reached a pitch where the disenfranchised and exploited can look to a culpable minority with vengeful eyes. This minority, though, cannot be defined by the color of their skin but by the color of their god. Green.

Russell Brand