Quotes About Guilt

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet i have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.

But I'm not guilty," said K. "there's been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We're all human beings here, one like the other." "That is true" said the priest "but that is how the guilty speak

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

Devilish in my innocence.

The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law and at the same time insists he's innocent.

Guilt is never to be doubted.

It's characteristic of this judicial system that a man is condemned not only when he's innocent but also in ignorance.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

He accepted it as a fundamental principle for an accused man to be always forearmed, never to let himself be caught napping, never to let his eyes stray unthinkingly to the right when his judge was looming up on the left--to the right when his judge was looming up on the left--and against that very principle he kept offending again and again.

His escape is ultimately doomed by his utter devotion to his family, which never diminishes. The guilt brought on by Gregor's newfound inability to provide for his family- financially and emotionally- prevents him from attaining any sort of liberation. Perhaps recognizing this conundrum, Gregor chooses to remain an insect.

They don't make mistakes. Our authorities, as far as I am aware - and I know only the lowest ranks - don't actually look for guilt in the population, but are, as the law says, drawn towards guilt and must send us guards out. That's the law. Where would there be a mistake? 'I don't know this law', said K. 'That's your problem,' said the guard. 'It probably only exists in your minds', said K.

His last words to Robert Klopstock are 'Kill me, or you are a murderer.

Later, the family, led ferociously by the father, forces Gregor into his room like a naughty child. And Gregor, for his part, has no interest in adult matters. He loathes his profession. He has no intention of finding a companion; the only woman in his life, besides his sister and mother, is the pin-up girl in the guilt frame.

Omoar?-m?, altfel e?ti un uciga?.

In a way, I was already punished before I knew I had done anything wrong.

it's in the nature of this judicial system that one is condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

You see, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law, and at the same time claims he's innocent.

If they were shocked, then Gregor was no longer responsible.' This passage betray's Gregor's premeditation and points to the idea that Gregor wanted to change into a monstrous vermin- something incapable of working in an office.

I don't even consider them guilty; it's the organization that's guilty, it's the high officials who are guilty.

Because I don't even consider them guilty; it's the organization that's guilty, it's the high officials who are guilty

Take my warning to heart instead, and don't be so unyielding in future, you can't fight against this court, you must confess to guilt. Make your confession at the first chance you get. Until you do that, there is no possibility of getting out of their clutches, none at all.