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He who is present at a wrongdoing and does not lift a hand to prevent it, is as guilty as the wrongdoers.
-American Indian Proverb
Omaha
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He who flees judgment confesses his guilt.
-Anon.
Legal maxim
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He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation.
-Proverb
Robert Christy, Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages, p. 470, no. 12 (1888)
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
-Simone de Beauvoir
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It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
-William Blackstone
'Commentaries on the Laws of England', iv.27), an important exposition of English Law written between 1765-1769
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
-Erma Bombeck
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
-Chaucer
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Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
Cavendum est ne major poena quam culpa sit; et ne issdem de causis alii plectantur,alii ne appellentur quidem.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
De officiis I. 23.
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I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.
-David Crosby
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In the small circle of pain within the skull
You still shall tramp and tread one endless round
Of thought, to justify your action to yourselves,
Weaving a fiction which unravels as you weave,
Pacing forever in the hell of make-believe
Which never is belief: this is your fate on earth
And we must think no further of you.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
Murder in the Cathedral, pt. 2 (1935)
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The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.
-Albert Ellis
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Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.
-John Flavel
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He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.
-Charles James Fox
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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
-Willard Gaylen
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That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.
-Kahlil Gibran
The Voice of the Master, trans. Anthony R. Ferris
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
-Lillian Hellman
The Watch on the Rhine, 1941
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Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
Culpam poena premit comes
-Horace
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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
-Victor Hugo
Les Mis
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
-Thomas Jefferson
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Where the guilt is doubtful, a presumption of innocence should in general be admitted.
-Junius
Letters, No. 67. (1772)
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Guilt alone, like brain-sick frenzy in its feverish mood, fills the light air with visionary terrors, and shapeless forms of fear.
-Junius
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There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.
-Lao-Tzu
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If you commit a crime, you're guilty.
-Rush Limbaugh
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The very presence of guilt, let alone its tenacity, implies imbalance: Something, we suspect, is getting more of our energy than warrants, at the expense of something else, we suspect, that deserves more of our energy than we
-Melinda M. Marshall
Good Enough Mothers, ch. 4 (1993)
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Books about Guilt
