Quotes About Guilt

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.

It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.

Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.

A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

Guilt, the poor man's mind control.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

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

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.