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People dying and being shot … I just feel so guilty laughing and joking like everything is so rosy when people are hungry and can’t find work, and out of work, and getting being put out of apartments … I’m just dedicated to it. Muhammad Ali, cited Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes, Sky 2020 *****
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. William Shakespeare, III Henry VI V vi 11
O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven. William Shakespeare, Hamlet III iii 36, King
75,242. But full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. ibid. IV iv 19-20, Queen
The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed,
And extreme fear can neither fight nor fly,
But coward-like with trembling terror die. William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece 229-231
75,243. But they whose guilt within their bosoms lie
Imagine every eye beholds their shame. ibid. 1342-1343
Nothing says guilty like a disappearing act. The Great Train Robbery II: A Copper's Tale ***** head rozzer, BBC 2013
I felt no remorse. No guilt whatsoever. I felt only one thing – I felt power. Witness to the Mob 1998 starring Tom Sizemore & Nicholas Turturro & Debi Mazar & Abe Vigoda & Philip Baker Hall & Frank Vincent & Lenny Venito & Angelo Ruggiero & Michael Imperioli et al, director Thaddeus O’Sullivan
Guilty? What about? Ah, you think that Rockefeller guy feels guilty? Capone 1975 starring Ben Gazzara & Harry Guardino & Susan Blakely & Sylvester Stallone & John Cassavetes & Frank Campanella & John Orchard & Carmen Argenziano & George Chandler & John Davis Chandler & Royal Dano et al, director Steve Carver, him to her
Let’s face it, we’re as guilty as the man behind the grassy knoll. Red Dwarf s6e4: Emohawk: Polymorph II, Kryten, BBC 1993
We are not responsible for your guilt. Star Trek: Voyager s7e13: Repentance, Seven of Nine to prisoner
The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned. Confucius, The Wisdom of Confucius
‘Was the defendant guilty? Undoubtedly.’ The Last Days of Charles I, Channel 5 2015, Geoffrey Robertson QC
Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway. Isabelle Holland
The guilty think all talk is of themselves. Geoffrey Chaucer
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. Coco Chanel
To take upon oneself not punishment but guilt – that alone would be godlike. Friedrich Nietzsche
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something. John Lennon
In a 1997 trial at Luton Crown Court a juror told the defendant: ‘Why don’t you plead guilty? You are fucking guilty.’ The juror told the judge that he had spoken out because ‘it was an insult to my intelligence for him to plead not guilty.’ Judge Wilkie QC was forced to order a retrial. swordplay online, The Top Ten Mad Jury Moments #8
Tonight’s experiment is about how easily we can be manipulated. Can an innocent person be persuaded to confess to a murder that he hasn’t committed? Derren Brown: The Experiments: The Guilt Trip, Channel 4 2011
We all fall prey to unnecessary guilt. Guilt has been used as a tool to manipulate us throughout history. The Church has encouraged all manner of damaging guilt around the notion of sex, and feelings of guilt and shame are the primary modern causes of depression. ibid.
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief. Dave Grohl
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. Erma Bombeck
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. Jane Austen
Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn’t. Alan Cohen
What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy. Dennis Miller
There’s guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture. Steven Pinker
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do. Voltaire, attributions & variations
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. Voltaire, Zadig
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted. Franz Kafka
She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened. George R R Martin, A Game of Thrones
I’m not interested in anybody’s guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn’t do it, and I didn’t do it either, but I am responsible for it because I am a man and a citizen of this country and you are responsible for it, too, for the very same reason ... Anyone who is trying to be conscious must begin to dismiss the vocabulary which we’ve used so long to cover it up, to lie about the way things are. James Baldwin
We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way. John Steinbeck
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves. Peter McWilliams
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt. Amanda Cross, Poetic Justice, 1970
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer. William Blackstone
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. Thomas Jefferson
How much guilt can I take eh, girl? Boys from the Blackstuff: Shop thy Neighbour ***** him to her, BBC 1992
The next day brought death and judgement, stirring his soul slowly from its listless despair. The faint glimmer of fear became a terror of spirit as the hoarse voice of the preacher blew death into his soul. He suffered its agony. He felt the death chill touch the extremities and creep onward towards the heart, the film of death veiling the eyes, the bright centres of the brain extinguished one by one like lamps, the last sweat oozing upon the skin, the powerlessness of the dying limbs, the speech thickening and wandering and failing, the heart throbbing faintly and more faintly, all but vanquished, the breath, the poor breath, the poor helpless human spirit sobbing and sighing, gurgling and rattling in the throat. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist of a Young Man
Do not put thyself
To such a voluntary torture, which proceeds
Out of your own guilt. John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, Cardinal
O, white innocence,
That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide
Thine awful and serenest countenance
From those who know thee not! Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci V iii 24