#guilt

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is. ↗

— Charlotte Lennox

#found #guilty #innocent #less #more

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#folly #foolishness #guilt #regret #anger

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#god #guilty #innocent #unthinkable

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#case #clerical #dismissed #guilt #itself

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#crime #doing #false #first #first of all

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare. ↗

— John Mayer

#disappointment #equate #even #explain #feels

Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#did #fact #felt #first #got

No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties. ↗

— Paul Goodman

#intelligence

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt. ↗

— Janet Reno

#ask #concluded #could #death #death penalty

Sometimes I just want to paint the words "It's my fault" across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me. ↗

— Christina Westover

#anger #blame #burn #christina-westover #enemies