Guilt

(316 votes)   It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(304 votes)   Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(109 votes)   Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus
55-117 AD, Roman Historian

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(106 votes)   Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

Jean Jacques Rousseau
1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

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(96 votes)   Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

Ovid
BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet

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(96 votes)   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
1749-1806, British Statesman, Foreign Secretary

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(91 votes)   Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.

John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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(89 votes)   Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.

Nicholas Rowe

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(87 votes)   Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Bishop Robert South
1634-1716, British Clergyman

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(85 votes)   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.

Dr. Albert Ellis
1913-, American Psychotherapist

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