Quotes About Guilty

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

I'm not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in.

When trouble comes no mother should have to plead guilty alone. The pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, goat herders, fathers, and peer groups should all be called to the bench as well. . . .

One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it.

President Abraham Lincoln commuted the sentences of all but thirty-nine, who'd been found guilty of the most egregious acts.

There is an ancient rule: actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea—"the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.

keep me on the payroll, but I could not stay there, not as a charity case. Laurie might be able to go back to teaching, but we would not be able to pay the bills on her income alone. This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating punishment. Every defendant pays a price.

5 It is not good to be partial to the guilty and thus deprive the innocent of justice.

It ended with the extraordinary words, 'The entire attitude of the Gestapo throughout this affair has proven that its sole concern was to brand me as the guilty party,' and, 'I therefore challenge you to a duel with pistols.

The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.

Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

God has joined the innocent with the guilty.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

We should honor the Savior's declaration to "be of good cheer." (Matthew 14:27) Indeed, it seems to me we may be more guilty of breaking that commandment than almost any other!

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Got your fingerprints as evidence all on my bodyPut your right hand on the book and you were found guiltyI can't wait forever but that's how it's gonna beFor me they'll never beCase Closed

Chocolate is an antidepressant, which is especially useful as you start to gain weight.

By the rules of evidence in this trial the verdict is foreordained. If the testimony ... is admitted as competent, the conspiracy is proved. Because it would not be admitted except under the assumption that a conspiracy existed.... Here ... a defendant can be found guilty of being brought to court as a defendant.

He might have to spend the rest of his presidency answering to the two classes of people always most vociferous in hard times: the bewildered and the guilty.