Guilty Quotes

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted. (Livy)
To be innocent is to be not guilty But to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations. View quote
William Penn
Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent. View quote
Ayn Rand
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty." View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. View quote
Edward Teller
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. View quote
Voltaire
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. View quote
Ronald Reagan
I feel guilty for being a member of the human race. View quote
Jack Kerouac
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. View quote
Aleister Crowley
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy. (Madeline Kahn)
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. View quote
Erica Jong
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. View quote
Joseph de Maistre
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer. View quote
William Blackstone
The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. View quote
William Shakespeare
One is often guilty by being too just. View quote
Pierre Corneille
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. View quote
Voltaire
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them. (Valerie Trierweiler)
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. View quote
Jessica Mitford
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth. View quote
Alan Dershowitz
Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine. View quote
Samuel Johnson