Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.
Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!
It's impossible for minorities, impossible for people of color to be ever guilty of hate crimes. Because their only crimes are justified. Their crimes are justifiable. It’s retribution and payback for years and decades and maybe even centuries of oppressive behavior at the hands of the white majority.
But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.
I want to learn how to be more thankful for what I am, than guilty for what I'm not.
I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.
You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.
The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.
I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.
In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.
I vowed to our countrymen that I would do everything I could to protect the American people. . . That's why I said to Afghanistan: If you harbor a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorist.
What is the point of abusing yourself with guilt in the first place? If you did make a mistake and act in a hurtful way, your guilt won't reverse your blunder in some magical manner. It won't speed your learning processes so as to reduce the chance you'll make the same mistake in the future. Other people won't love and respect you more because you are feeling guilty and putting yourself down in this manner. Nor will your guilt lead to productive living. So what's the point?
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.
Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found.