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Quotes About Guilty

To reconcile so great a span as heaven and earth is beyond our ordinary way of seeing; generally, two irreconcilable opposites (guilty and need) make neurotic structure in us. It takes a poet — or the poet in us — to overlap such a pair and make a sublime whole of them.
~ Robert A. Johnson
Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Funding for faith-based charities should] be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty.
~ Eugene Rivers
In order to receive a pardon you must plead guilty.
~ Johnny Hunt
Borne wasn't even a killer as I was a killer, but someone who killed the innocent and tried to call them guilty.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
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!
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
Lastly, I accuse the first court-martial of having violated the law by condemning an accused person on one document kept secret, and I accuse the second court-martial of having, in obedience to orders, covered this illegality by committing in its turn the judicial crime of knowingly acquitting a guilty person.
~ Émile Zola
The preconceived opinion which they brought to the Bench was evidently this: "Dreyfus has been condemned for the crime of treason by a Court-Martial; he is therefore guilty, and we, the Court-Martial, cannot declare him innocent; for we know that to proclaim the guilt of Esterhazy would be to proclaim the innocence of Dreyfus.
~ Émile Zola
Idealism is guilty middle-class bullshit.
~ Eric Bogosian
Jeff: Idealism is guilty middle-class bullshit.
~ Eric Bogosian
I always degenerate to chocolate and coffee.
~ Mandy Ingber
I'm a big fan of TV on demand. I'm embarrassed to say what I watch. It's the worst crap.
~ Michael Bastian
I'm not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.
~ Martha Stewart
What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years?
~ Greta Van Susteren
In the end the war was of a piece with all wars: unpredictable, cruel, and violent, damning the innocent and guilty alike.
~ Rick Atkinson
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
~ Robert Browning
In May 2010, Wakefield and Walker-Smith were found guilty and had their medical licenses revoked. Murch was found not guilty. Wakefield is unrepentant. He has since published a book entitled Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines: The Truth Behind a Tragedy (2010) with an introduction by actress Jenny McCarthy. (McCarthy denies that she is anti-vaccine. She claims she is pro safe vaccine, yet she seems to think there is no such thing as a safe vaccine.)
~ Robert Carroll
Avoidance of conflict becomes a habit, and you lose the taste for battle. Feeling guilty is pointless; it is not your fault you have enemies.
~ Robert Greene
criminal law, a field that presented many of the same conditions and offered many of the same rewards as topflight athletics. It had the same elements of intense preparation and concentration, of confrontation in a circumscribed arena, where passion and aggression were bound by elaborate rules, of the final decision, and the emotional charge that went with it: won, lost, guilty, not guilty.
~ Robert K. Tanenbaum
If lists are a guilty pleasure, then book lists are an almost sinful addiction
~ Robert McCrum
Number 402, your name is Will Barrent. Age 27, blood type O-L3, Index JX-221-R. Guilty of murder.
~ Robert Sheckley
A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.
~ David M. Raup
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
~ Hortense Calisher
Food commonly eaten for more than 150 years should be innocent until proven guilty, and food invented in the last 150 years is guilty until proven innocent.
~ Miles Hassell MD