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Guilty Quotes

On conscience, blame and owning up.

These guilty quotes open with a broader moral claim, that everyone carries guilt for the good they failed to do rather than only for active wrongdoing. For a related theme, see Responsibility quotes.

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I don't feel guilty about any of my pleasures.

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

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I tend to be a little too old to feel guilty about watching anything. Like, I watch 'Survivor' every week.

Quotes by Adam Scott

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The tragedy of the UPA is not that it didn't do anything, but that it is not able to take credit for what it has done. By staying silent when it should have been shouting from the rooftop and by...

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

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I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.

Quotes by A. R. Rahman

Consequence Quotes

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When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

Quotes by Woody Allen

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Foreman told Ray to plead guilty and he'd then give his brother $500, if Ray didn't cause any problems at the guilty plea hearing, and he could take that $500 and hire a lawyer to set aside the plea. Foreman...

Quotes by William Pepper

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Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

Quotes by William Hague

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It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

Quotes by William Blackstone

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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Voltaire

Emotion Quotes

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Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.

Quotes by Vincent Bugliosi

One entry defends a justice system built on presuming innocence, while another finds guilt in something as small as bending a game's rules and quietly correcting it. See also Regret quotes.