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“A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.”

Mind Done Guilt Ill Guilty Repentance Undone

Book:Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney

Source: Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney

“You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?”

Real Sound Rooms Issues Comedy Brilliant Drawing Wit Guilty Cowardice Noel

Author:Peter De Vries

“I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my class think they're better than other people. You're damn right we're better. We're better because we do not shirk our obligations either to ourselves or to others. . . .we live by our lights, we die by our lights, and whoever the high gods may be, we'll look them in the eye without apology.”

People Thinking Looks May Use Light Eye Dies Class Racism Obligation Guilty Damn Ashamed Live By Belonging Apology Shirk

Book:The Moviegoer

Source: The Moviegoer

“Charity is the filthiest invention of the human mind: first you steal what belongs to everyone; then you use the law and various other means to protect it. You give charity to prevent the have-nots from rebelling against you. It also makes you feel less guilty. All do-gooders feel 'high' when they do good.”

Giving Feels Mind Firsts Humans Mean Use Law Protect Charity Various Stealing Invention Guilty Human Mind

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.”

Ifs Country Fall Military Conscience Practicals Familiar Guilty Operations Torture Tactics Military Operations

Book:Select Speeches of Kossuth

Source: Select Speeches of Kossuth

“If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and feel guilty-and frightened too.”

People Ifs Feels May Fantasy Violence Guilty Frightened Ambitious

Book:Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and capitalists alone, are guilty of war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!”

Men World Believe Littles Long War Bigs Politician Don't Believe Guilty Capitalist Long Ago Revolt Risen Little Man

Book:The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition

Source: The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition

“...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old way ... We weren't starving, we weren't bugged by the police, locked up in madhouses for our ideas, arrested, deported, slave laborers sent to die in concentration camps. We were spared the holocausts and nights of terror. With our advantages we should be formulating the new basic questions for mankind. But instead we sleep. Just sleep and sleep, and eat and play and fuss and sleep again.”

“Nobody becomes guilty by fate.”

Fate Guilt Guilty

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.”

May Persons Justice Failing Guilt Bars Guilty Wickedness Hangman Guilty Person

Author:Seneca the Younger

“What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.”

Doors Judging Absence Guilty Appeals Accused Defence Slander Verdict Closed Doors

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.”

Lasts Form Animal Cry Creatures Regard Vices Spread Guilty Vanity Wheels Surround Contemplating Tails Peacock

Book:Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated

Source: Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated

“The human is the only guilty animal.”

Humans Humanity Animal Guilty

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“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.”

Thinking Doe Facts Social Saws Ego Currents Tendencies Guilty Absurdity Egotism Facts Of Life Militant

Book:On Self and Social Organization

Source: On Self and Social Organization

“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.”

Certain Blood Land Crime Revolution Guilty Civil War Brown American Civil War Abolition Abolitionist John Brown

Author:John Mason Brown

“I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed.”

Believe Humans War Problem Spiritual Process Race Materials Guilty Peaceful Human Race Persuasion Riot Bloodshed Inference

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.”

“The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.”

Feels Persons Law Chance Citizens Healthy Guilt Guilty Abiding Miscellaneous Doers Law Abiding Citizen

Author:Albert Ellis

“From what I hear, it's a normal thing to feel guilty as a mother, especially when trying to fill the needs of a newborn along with maintaining what you had with your first child.”

Needs Feels Trying Firsts Children Mother Normal Guilty Maintaining Newborn Normal Things

Author:Jennie Finch

“Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of High Misdemeanour, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars.”

Pay Five Heard Twenties Dollars Dues Guilty Warning Penalties San Francisco Twenty Five Ever After Treasury Warrants Bay Area

Author:Emperor Norton

“I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.”

Play Opportunity Pleasure Reader Equal Raised Guilty Equal Opportunity Presbyterians

Author:Richard Ford

“All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.”

Ideas Names Empty Fellows Prison Guilty Innocence

Book:Jean Anouilh

Source: Jean Anouilh

“Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.”

Wells Guilt Guilty Unfortunate Resigned

Book:Frankenstein: The Original Story

Source: Frankenstein: The Original Story

“We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right.”

May Long Doe Action Moral Conscience Regard Assuming Injustice Wounds Guilty Offense Blasphemy Not Guilty Importunate

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“My Lord, what love is this that pays so dearly. That I, the guilty one, may go free!”

Love May Love Is Pay Lord Guilty Free Love

Author:Graham Kendrick

“Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.”

Writing Past Nations Secret Fiction Wonder Rich Identity Tradition Guilty Divided Gothic

Author:Terry Eagleton

“Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.”

Feels Sometimes Guilty

Author:Adam Sandler

“I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.”

Sometimes Shows Pleasure Watches Singers Guilty Idols American Idol Epitome Guilty Pleasure

Author:M. Ward

“I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game'.”

Ifs Film Games Pleasure Watches Guilty Guilty Pleasure

Author:Shane Black

“I kind of love going to weddings - it's a guilty pleasure. I've never been the wedding-y type girl dreaming about the big day, the dress, but I always cry. Always. Even if I don't know the bride that well, I'm verklempt!”

Ifs Knows Wells Kind Dream Bigs Girl Pleasure Cry Type Dresses Guilty Brides Kinds Of Love Guilty Pleasure

Author:Alison Brie

“Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.”

Book Self Air Guilty Indulgence Rant Self Indulgence

Author:Iain Banks

“My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.”

Pleasure Hot Guilty Guilty Pleasure

Author:Rachel Bilson

“I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.”

Thinking Believe Persons Principles Defense Honestly Innocent Guilty Attorney Innocent Person Defense Attorneys

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.”

People Thinking Way Guy Courses Party Attitude Virtue Cooking Credit Guilty Chores Painless Ostentatious

Author:Adam Gopnik

“I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.”

Art Dollars Proof Guilty Works Of Art Longevity

Author:Barbara Goldsmith

“There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.”

Kind New York Guilty Journalist Narcissism Journalistic

Author:Bernard Goldberg

“Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.”

States Values United United States Deserve Constitution Court Core Innocent Guilty Documents Proven Founding Core Values

Author:John Garamendi

“I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I'm the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break.”

Feels Actors Break Amount Lucky Fortune Guilty Fortunate Graduates Unbelievable Exceptional Good Fortune Many Friends Juilliard

Author:Matthew Gray Gubler

“I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are so many awful things too. I feel very guilty a lot of the time about enjoying my life so much when there are people living in such misery.”

People Thinking World Feels Kind Persons Enjoy Misery Great Things Guilty Awful Confused Enjoying My Life

Author:Lily Allen

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

Want Elements Claims Originals Critics Guilty Formulas

Author:Piers Anthony

“Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.”

Computer Ugly Guilty Derivatives Perl

Author:Larry Wall

“Over what guilty spirit to not hear the beating, to not hear the beating, but only tears of perfect moan, only tears of perfect moan.”

Spirit Perfect Tears Guilty

Book:The Raven

Source: The Raven

“I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin.”

Soul Sin Sadness Loneliness Stranger Lust Welcome Guilty My Soul Low Self Esteem Sadness And Loneliness

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Feelin' guilty, feelin' scared, hidden cameras everywhere.”

Politics Cameras Scared Guilty

Author:Ray Davies

“"Sinner" is a present-tense description of everyone, including those who have put their faith in Christ. Of course, those who have called Jesus "Lord" are justified, meaning that they are no longer guilty. Also, they have been given the Spirit, which makes them slaves to Christ rather than to sin. But we all are sinners. Perfection awaits eternity.”

“I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.”

Ifs Want Needs Feels Night Watches Five Guilty Staying Going Out Invited Files Forensics

Author:Edie Falco

“I don't really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.”

People Want Guilty

Author:Nancy Grace

“If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.”

Ifs Writing Hands Pleasure Materials Guilty These Days Satire Depressing Guilty Pleasure

Author:Carl Hiaasen

“Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.”

Feels Firsts Mean Said Two Kids Lasts Mets Spring Guilty Covered

Author:Felicity Huffman

“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.”

People Knows Has Beens Crime Guilty Dna Advent

Author:Kamala Harris