#guilt

Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ... Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families ... and you have no idea ... what games goes on! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#detectives #families #family-life #gentility #hidden-guilt

The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#bad #cannot #capture #criminals #forever

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#automatically #clever #culture #devised #guilt

Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#emergencies #ever #fall #guilty #hand

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty. ↗

— Edward Coke

#innocent #spares #threatens #who

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. ↗

— William Cowper

#glory #guilt #principles #selfish #shame

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#always #anything #assumes #been #conscience

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#essentially #everyone #fact #guilty #himself

I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty. ↗

— Puff Daddy

#glad #guilty #i #innocent #knows

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off. ↗

— Jim Dale

#applause #because #boy #burst #clap