Quotes About Guilt

Meidän on aina kärsittävä itse kaikki aiheuttamamme kärsimys.

Your room was slightly disturbed today, and in a sense it was my fault; it was done by strangers and against my will, and yet, as I say, it was my fault; that's why I wanted to ask your pardon for.

It's a mistake. How can any person in general be guilty? We're all human after all, each and every one of us.

it was her fault he hadn't eaten anything that evening

Para el sospechoso es mejor moverse que sentarse, ya que puede estar, sin saberlo, sobre una balanza y ser pesado según sus pecados

they're probably law books, and it's in the nature of this judicial system that one is condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

There are many fine details in which the court gets lost, but in the end it reaches into some place where originally there was nothing and pulls enormous guilt out of it.

They think you are guilty. Your trial will perhaps not get any farther than one of the lower courts. At least for the moment they think your guilt is proven.' 'But I'm not guilty,' said K., 'it's a mistake. How can a person be guilty anyway? We're all human, every single one of us.' 'That is correct,' said the priest, 'but that's the way guilty people talk.

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

There's no way at all that you can defend yourself against this Court, you have to admit your guilt. Make a full confession as soon as you can

The books must be law books and it's characteristic of this judicial system that a man is condemned not only when he's innocent but also in ignorance.

For a suspect, movement is better than staying still, for someone who is still can always, without realizing it, be in the scales and be weighed with his sins.

my cold, hardly disguised, indestructible, childishly helpless to the point of being ridiculous, brutishly self-satisfied indifference, the indifference of a self-sufficient but coldly imaginative child, I have never found anywhere else; to be sure, it was here too the only protection against a nervous breakdown brought on by fear and a sense of guilt. All that occupied my mind was concern for myself, and this in various ways.

I'm troubled by how much I like Rowan Williams. I think it reveals character flaws in myself that I'd rather not think about. The softly spoken soon-to-be-former Archbishop of Canterbury is my secret crush, my weird pash, and my guilty pleasure.

I don't want to harm my government. I want to help my government. But the fact that they are willing to completely ignore due process, they're willing to declare guilt without ever seeing a trial, these are things that we need to work against as a society and say, 'Hey, this is not appropriate.'

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

If I were ever to grace the pages of 'Vogue,' I would want my image retouched because the audience is so vast. There is great vulnerability in being exposed to that many judging eyes. I feel no small amount of guilt over this willingness to surrender my ideals.

It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.

Hmmm... cooking with wine? I usually drink wine while cooking... I do a good braised short ribs with cabernet, though. We're big red wine drinkers here. All that research showing that it's good for you takes the guilt away.

But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

My guilty pleasure is just eating really bad food. I cannot help myself, but you're on the road during the night, and the only thing open is a fast food place, and you're like 'Alright. Not my fault. It's time to eat.'

In the real world, some defense lawyers never have an innocent client in their whole career.

I panicked in my 20s and 30s about whether I was doing the right thing. I was an excited puppy, wanting to please people and feeling guilty that I'd had a privileged education and an acting career.